Kate Bloch was out on the bluffs when she saw this Great Blue Heron fly by. And there is a seasonal waterfall behind the graceful bird.
We have had a nice amount of rainfall and seasonal creeks and waterfalls are beautiful now.
Thanks to Kate for allowing me to share her photo with you here.
Sunny and windy today, and temps in the low 50s. There was 0.75 inches in our rain gauge, giving us 54.60 season to date. 50 inches is a nice, wet winter so we're doing great!
Michael Reinhart saw this Great Blue Heron strutting along the bluff recently.
This looks like a Heron with an attitude!
Thanks to Mike for allowing me to share his photo with you here.
The rains are gone for now, though we had a lot of cloud cover. Temps were in the low 60s. This weekend could be stellar!
Karen Wilkinson found this Great Blue Heron, and he/she was apparently looking at her.
I wondered if the Heron was laughing at her. But Karen disabused my whimsy. She said she thinks the Heron was actually hacking up a feather!
Here's one of my favorite photos of a Great Blue Heron taking off, by Betsy Anderson
And here is a Great Blue Heron cloud, as photographed by Marilyn Green.
Great Blue Herons are year round residents of the Mendonoma Coast.
Thanks to Karen, Betsy and Marilyn for allowing me to share their photos with you here.
Oh boy, we're having a big, fat, wet storm. Two inches so far, and it's raining as I type this!
I had to laugh at Jon Shiu's photo. It looks like the Great Blue Heron is chastising the Raven.
Common Ravens and GBH's are year round residents of the Mendonoma Coast.
Thanks to Jon for allowing me to share his photo with you here.
There was .50 inches in my rain gauge from last night, 49.50 season to date. It's a wait-five-minutes type of day - sunshine, hail, sunshine, rain - and it's only 41 degrees early this afternoon.
Marilyn Green photographed this cloud formation recently and she sees a Great Blue Heron on the top. I agree.
Here's a recent photo of an actual GBH, taken by Sara Bogard out near the Point Arena Lighthouse. Notice that the heron has a scar on his or her right wing. Sara said it looked healed up so it happened some time ago.
Great Blue Herons are year round residents of the Mendonoma Coast, and sometimes they are even seen in the clouds!
Thanks to Marilyn and Sara for allowing me to share their photos with you here.
We've had lots more rain overnight and it's raining this afternoon as I type this post. The seasonal creek that crosses Rick's and my land is doing its best imitation of a mighty river right now.
Happy New Year to you and yours!