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Loved the intruder alert etc… beautiful birds… we’ve actually had a blue heron visit our little neighborhood pond/park… it’s amazing because I’m sure there aren’t any fish in that nasty water😳🙄 and the ducks are back again… they swim in the swimming g pool part of the time 😂😂😳😳🤷‍♀️🦆🦆

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Blue herons aren’t picky eaters, he will probably find something living there! The ducks are so silly.

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❤️😍👍

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So pure, so beautiful. Your intro had me laughing though 😄 ("I'm sneezying" - haha, me too!)

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Beautiful. I especially enjoyed the sparrows. And it is fascinating to see the heron scaring off the intruder. I don't think I've seen herons play King of the Castle before.

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Beautiful photos Karen. I like that Dark-eyed Junco peeking out from behind the dandelion. Such an interesting capture!

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Thank you Neil! Sitting on the ground with the birds is so much fun.

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Our sandhill cranes are back and singing their croaky love songs to one another.

And my wife saw her first killdeer of the year this week. Do you have them there?

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Ah, sandhill cranes, I wish we had them here! Yes, we have those silly killdeer! They make their nests in parking lots and spend their days running around screeching at all the people, lol.

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I so love blue herons, and your pictures are here are exquisite! That shot of the heron flying away over the water…it makes me want to go back and draw more heron haiku comics! Thanks for adding more beauty to my day and my imagination.

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Thank you Jason! Oooohm heron haiku comics?!? Cool!

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I end up making a lot of haiku comics about birds. Here's one about a green heron:

https://weirdopoetry.substack.com/p/the-messenger

And here is a more recent one about a great blue heron:

https://weirdopoetry.substack.com/p/i-am-a-birdman

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I love these! And I love your photo of the fledgling green heron. Greenies are awesome!

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Thanks for the beautiful start to my Friday! ✨🙂

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Thank you Sandy!

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It never ceases to amaze me what you manage to see! It's like you have X-ray vision for all the things of nature!

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Thank you Lauren. I once missed seeing my sister in a grocery store parking lot and she said, probably correctly, "if I was a bird you would have seen me."

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Just an incredibly happy start to the day! Absolutely love your captions!

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Thank you Michael!

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Peace to you as well. Again thanks for your work & sharing.

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Thank you MC

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So much beauty. Thank you Karen. I didn't realize blue herons had such yellow feet. Thank you for paying attention and sharing it here. I'm going to look for this next time. Peace be with you.

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Thank you Julie!

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