The Green Herons at Springbrook are getting ready to migrate already, which means they spend all their time out in the open on the edges of ponds looking for frogs or fish or anything else that moves.
I took these pictures this morning from Springbrook's long floating boardwalk. There were at least 25 of these herons hunting, preening, or noticing that a spot another heron had looked better, so let's fly over and check it out.
It seemed like they spent a lot of energy flying from one spot to another. There was almost always a couple of herons in the air checking out new locations.
In this picture their short stubby tail can be seen, and the crest on their head, which seems to be raised whenever something exciting/alarming enters the bird's mind.
In the picture below all the primary and secondary wing feathers can be seen and counted as the heron comes in for a landing. All the new feathers have molted in and it is ready to migrate.
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