December 23, 2006 [LINK / comment]
Great blue heron behind SARS
After a torrential rain yesterday, part of the same weather system that recently dumped two feet of snow on Colorado, the skies cleared this morning. So, I took a walk behind the Staunton-Augusta Rescue Squad for the first time in several weeks. There weren't as many birds as I had expected, but on the way back I came upon a Great blue heron wading in the stream. It was the first of that species I had ever seen in that location. It quickly flew behind some bushes upstream, but I managed to get close enough for a brief video clip, from which this image is extracted. Here is today's list of notable birds:
- Red-bellied woodpecker
- Downy woodpecker
- White-breasted nuthatch
- Golden-crowned kinglet
- Great blue heron