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Good Afternoon @ my house! (Original Post)
elleng
Jan 2021
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samplegirl
(13,812 posts)1. Pretty
What is it?
3Hotdogs
(15,147 posts)10. Actually, a Night Heron.
njhoneybadger
(3,911 posts)3. Great Blue Heron
magicarpet
(18,464 posts)4. Well,.... what have we here ?
elleng
(141,926 posts)5. Great Blue Heron
magicarpet
(18,464 posts)6. Yes,.. I saw it after I posted.... very nice photo.
SheltieLover
(78,224 posts)7. Beautiful!
Ty!
3Hotdogs
(15,147 posts)8. Try Night Heron.
elleng
(141,926 posts)9. Thanks! Mebbe!
The black-crowned night heron, or black-capped night heron, commonly shortened to just night heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia. Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-crowned_night_heron
3Hotdogs
(15,147 posts)11. There is a bait and tackle store on an inlet in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
A Night Heron lives on the edge and every day, sometimes several times a day, it comes into the store, sits on the counter, gets a hand-out and then goes on its way,
elleng
(141,926 posts)12. NEAT! My daughter lives @/in the Pine Barrens,
but I'm not traveling up there 'soon;' hope I remember this, when I do.

