CautionNot food
Great blue heron
Ardea herodias
Creek sentinel. Leave it — a poor meal and a working fisher you want around.
- Marks
- S-neck in flight; spear bill
- Size
- 4 ft tall
- Habitat
- Creeks, river, farm ponds.
- Season
- Most of the year.
- Frequency
- common
Four-foot gray wader with a dagger bill. Flies with neck coiled. Stands the riffles of Laughery Creek.
If this is the one
That bill can take an eye if you handle an injured bird.