Close up: Green Heron

The Green Heron became somewhat of a favourite during this trip. A heron is something that I usually describes as a big bird, but this one is a quite small little bugger. Big as a crow it sneaks around in hallow water looking for small crayfish, fish and other jummy things.




It has a nice mix of colours and they work well as camouflage. It melts in to the vegetation and slips away from other predators while it hunts.



Apart from being beautiful it has a cool attitude. I has earlier written about when is slipped right by me BELOW my 500 mm lens while I was sitting there and here it is like a cowboy with a straw in its mouth while catching a fish as it was nothing hard at all :-) 



My first meeting was down at Eco Pond, later it was sitting in the shadows at Anhinga Trail.



After that I saw it everywhere :-) Typical behaviour is sitting on a straw just above the water, quietly waiting and without warning attack and capture some almost invisible animal.


What I couldn't get was how such a small bird where able to catch anything in the water without falling of the straw and in to the water.
The solution came when I saw this one; Out of that small body it managed to pull out a gigantic neck and one has to one self; how in earth can it get room for that long neck in that small body? Another of natures wonders :-)