“That blasted crane is fishing in my pond again,” I heard my father say. I have corrected him many times, but he still refers to the great blue heron as some kind of crane. Many wildlife viewers do ...

At four feet tall and with a wingspan of six feet, the great blue heron tends to get noticed. They are often seen wading in the shallow areas of lakes, ponds and rivers searching for food. Fish are ...

I was very fortunate to grow up on a good-sized muddy lake not far from where I'm sitting. There, I could watch muskrats, catch sunfish, and observe a particular great blue heron. Every spring we ...

WE ALL GASP and marvel at the largeness of a bald eagle but the great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a wonder in its own right — so tall! And that wingspan! It doesn’t have the back-from-the-brink ...

You probably know a great blue heron when you see it, but what about the green heron or snowy egret? Learn to identify common ...

Crane Hollow Road, 1 mile southwest of Hygiene, provides a view of about 50 nests in a great blue heron rookery, or more precisely, heronry. Massive nests made of sticks, up to 4 feet in diameter and ...

Mary Jean Ruhnke often paints birds to match her mood. For the first half of 2020, it was crows and ravens, dark symbols of the ongoing pandemic that the St. Hedwig artist captured in acrylics and ...

Egrets are members of a family of birds known as Ardeidae, which includes herons, bitterns and egrets. The great egret is a very stately, graceful bird with white plumage, long legs and a sharp, ...

GRAND FORKS – The bird walk in Sertoma Park on Saturday, Sept. 3, produced a range of birds, from wrens and sparrows to catbirds and flycatchers. There was lots of talk about the absence of robins and ...