Visitor came to call
By milky
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Now, what a day. Me thinking the highlight was going to be seeing my other 2 grandchildren, and seeing my daughters Wedding Dress..{and pay for it …..big gulp}……… It didnt even get to 9am before the excitement started…. We had a visitor land on the fence the other side of our next door neighbour
This cheeky Heron had spotted their pond, but I dont think he was quite sure how to get at it. So he started making his way along the fence towards the patio, and nearly stumbled accros the Vibernum…ooops.
He safetly got himself on to the patio wall and stood surveying the terrain to plan his course of action
He stood for a long time listening and looking all around him, and he was about to step down onto the rocks that lead off the patio, and Joan..opened the back door. There was a flurry of flapping wings and off he flew
Round in a huge circle……….What a brilliant start to the day……..
11 Apr, 2009
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Wow, great photos Milky. Well done.
12 Apr, 2009
They'll soon empty a fish pond but they usually hunt at first light, I believe, having said that we have one on our pond most days, one day I had 4 of them, was like Jurassic Park when they took off.
12 Apr, 2009
Terrific start to the day. Lovely to see the heron. I'm glad you had your camera at the ready.
12 Apr, 2009
Wonderful set of photos of a fascinating, pesky bird - thought I'd lost all my fish to one of these but glad to find three left this spring.
12 Apr, 2009
What great photos
12 Apr, 2009
fantastic photos, well done at capturing him on *film* so to speak
12 Apr, 2009
fantastic photos and they rarely land on fences or walls. they prefer to walk in to water from the flat. We often see then flying overhead but never seen them in the garden.
12 Apr, 2009
I had never seen a heron that up close! Very nice photos.
12 Apr, 2009
Thanks all............I couldnt believe the size of him when I saw him I only went into the back bedroom to see if I might spot Freddie lurking somewhere............How lucky was that.........
12 Apr, 2009
what amazing photographs- we do have herons in the field next to us- but never that close up!
17 Apr, 2009
I was probably about 30 ft away in an upstairs window, and its tha camera to thank........but I am very pleased with the photos.............They are very skittish birds and 1 slight movement will send the flying off..........
17 Apr, 2009
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Brilliant photographs - how lovely to see this beautiful bird close up. Glad he didn't help himself to the fish though - I wonder if he will return to try again?
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