@Ladybird4@Fairygirl Thank you all so much for showing an interest and agreeing it's a heron. Good to know. Lovely photo you have there @Dovefromabove. Is it waiting to be fed or just taking time out? Obviously a bird of habit.
I used to work on the site of a former stately home (Alderley Park) with a long-established heronry of upto 50 nests each year. So of course I had to devote some time to capture shots of these wonderful birds.
Here showing 'punk' youngsters on the nest
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
They are very much creatures of habit and have long memories. Our neighbour across the rise had a fish pond in their garden, but at least ten years ago they filled it in as a heron had eaten all the fish several years in succession. However every spring, when the herons have a family to feed, the heron returns and sits on our neighbour’s roof and stares down at the rockery which is where the fish pond used to be … just in case there’s a fishpond there again … we watch him from our bed as we sip our morning cuppas … this is our view …
My son says the one in his photo comes every day, about mid morning, and sits with the sun on his back for about an hour … then goes off about his business again … his perch is right by a main railway line, but he’s not bothered by the trains.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's a lovely story @Dovefromabove. I don't know enough about them so don't know if they are common over here like the oyster catcher last week. I have never seen them personally but then it's a long time since I walked the prom. It's daughter and SIL who have spotted them. Maybe another different one next week who knows. Thank you for your input very much appreciated.
When I re did my pond, nearly two years ago, it had barely been filled five minutes when this one spotted it from the neighbour's garage We have lots of them around here - plenty of water sources, and load of burns and rivers feeding eventually into the Clyde. I see them fairly often when I'm out. I got some good pix through at the Pentlands some years ago too. Rivers and reservoirs there, so good pickings for all sorts of birds.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lovely photo you have there @Dovefromabove. Is it waiting to be fed or just taking time out? Obviously a bird of habit.
Here showing 'punk' youngsters on the nest
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
My son says the one in his photo comes every day, about mid morning, and sits with the sun on his back for about an hour … then goes off about his business again … his perch is right by a main railway line, but he’s not bothered by the trains.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you for your input very much appreciated.
We have lots of them around here - plenty of water sources, and load of burns and rivers feeding eventually into the Clyde. I see them fairly often when I'm out.
I got some good pix through at the Pentlands some years ago too. Rivers and reservoirs there, so good pickings for all sorts of birds.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...