Gray Heron

      It has been more than a little difficult to get close enough to a gray heron to get a clear photo of one.  I've seen them in rice paddies, mangrove swamps, and along mudflats.
     The one on this page was going for a stroll near along mudflats near the Guandu ferry.

     Here are two more photos of a gray heron.  The first is a zoom of the second.  I photographed that bird near Shuang Shi Creek, about a half mile west of the place that the creek empties into the Danshui River.

     I finally got a clear photo of a gray heron on February 2, 2012.  Along the biking trail, about a mile or two from Danshui, I came across an irrigation pond that sometimes plays host to black-crowned night herons, egrets, and an occasional gray heron.  

     For more information on gray herons, click here.

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