Green Heron
“At first I thought I had just seen an American Bittern however minutes later I located a male Green Heron, with its red legs and deep iridescent green body skulking along the edge of a small nearby pond.”
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On June 3 I flushed a Green Heron hunting along the Pond Cove Brook corridor and on June 5 two charming Canada Warblers in the Crab Apple Tree behind our house were singing loud and true, their song a quick chip note followed by a series of hard to describe warbling notes.
On June 7 I flushed a Green Heron hunting along the Pond Cove Brook corridor while listening to the rollicking song of a Warbling Vireo.
At first I thought I had just seen an American Bittern however minutes later I located a male Green Heron, with its red legs and deep iridescent green body skulking along the edge of a small nearby pond.
A Green Heron suddenly flew in, apparently intending to land on a fallen birch in the pond.