The Beautiful Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

What would the world be, 

      once bereft

Of wet and wildness? 

      Let them be left,

O let them be left, 

      wildness and wet;

Long live the weeds 

      and the wilderness yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Despite their height, Great Blue Herons weigh 5 to 6 pounds, on average. 

You can hear the calls of the Great Blue Heron by going here: Great Blue Heron Sounds

Photo credit: Heron pic 1 By Dori (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Heron pic 2: By Jeff Kubina (originally posted to Flickr as Great Blue Heron) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Heron 3: Audobon, Great Blue Heron, public domain

Heron 4: By Geoff Gallice from Gainesville, FL, USA (Great blue heron) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons