Tag: heron
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Tricolored Heron Preening & Scratching
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in BirdsThis tricolored heron enjoyed a sunny day preening and scratching on the dock. Adult, nonbreeding tricolored heron. 45 second itchy scratchy from 1:28 on. Charleston SC Sept 2025
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Juvenile Little Blue Heron Eating Lizards
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in BirdsWe’re having king tides (high tides) in Charleston, SC in Oct 2025 and it forces this juvenile little blue heron to look for food in the yard. Our yard is mostly native plants and we don’t use herbicide or pesticide so there is a lot of good bugs and amphibians. Juvenile little blue herons are…
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Yellow Crowned Night Heron Swaying & Hunting Crabs
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in BirdsAdult yellow crowned night heron hunting fiddler crabs in the marsh in Charleston SC. August 7, 2025. Yellow crowned night herons like some other birds sway like the wind while hunting and honing in on their prey. I imagine this is some way to mimic the environment that it’s in and become a part of…
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Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron Practices Crabbing
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in BirdsThese juvenile yellow crowned night herons spends a lot of time on our dock and are just now starting to drink fresh water out of our dock water bowl after watching the elder yellow crowned night herons. S/he is also learning how to crab / hunt / forage and picks at a regurgitated pellet (undigested…
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Yellow Crowned Night Heron Horaltic Pose & Gular Fluttering
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in BirdsThis adult yellow crowned night heron is thermoregulating in the horaltic position. This position helps birds cool down in hot weather and/or warm up or dry off in cold weather if the sun is shining. It also helps bake or get any mites moving in the feathers and sometimes they preen a bit after this…
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Breeding Plumage Laughing Seagulls & Yellow Crowned Night Heron
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in BirdsThis laughing seagull has his / her breeding colors going. Orange / red bill, darker hooded head, and white crescent shaped incomplete eye rings around the eyes. The laughing gull spits up something, gets kicked off by another laughing gull, and then gets run off by a yellow crowned night heron in it’s breeding plumage.…
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Thirsty Yellow Crowned Night Heron Drinking
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in BirdsYellow crowned night herons have returned to Charleston for the season. They’re one of my favorite birds so I’m pretty happy to see them again. Yellow crowned night herons are always thirsty and they were the inspiration for this waterbowl on the dock after seeing them try to drink out of the sink that is…
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Great Blue Heron “I Ate The Whole Thing”
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in BirdsThis Great Blue Heron is fishing in the marshes off of Charleston SC. S/he stabbed a big flat fish (I believe flounder?) and then holds it in it’s mouth for a while and then swallows the fish whole. Look at that throat! The great blue heron maneuvers back and forth swaying trying to get that…
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Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron
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in BirdsThis is a juvenile yellow crowned night heron out on his own for the first time. This is one of four juveniles from a family that frequents our dock regularly. He’s on the dock looking for Fiddler Crabs to eat, but he just needs to look behind him!