Little Green Herons can sometimes be tough to spot. With their dark greenish wing feathers, they can easily blend in with their surroundings.
But if you look closely enough, you can spot this little heron wading around the edges of ponds or lakes, or hanging out in adjacent shrubs. You might see them intently focusing on hunting for little fish as they walk in shallow water.
“The Green Heron is one of the world’s few tool-using bird species,” AllAboutBirds.org notes. “It often creates fishing lures with bread crusts, insects, and feathers, dropping them on the surface of the water to entice small fish.”
Here are some of my favorite pictures of Green Herons I have taken, starting in January 2023.
Green Heron, Orlando Wetlands, July 2024.A little Green Heron snacks on a fish it caught at Orlando Wetlands Park.This Green Heron is trying to get the sun to help dry its wings after swimming in a pond along the Black Point Wildlife Drive.Green Heron, Orlando Wetlands, August 2023.A little Green Heron takes flight from a marsh at Orlando Wetlands in October 2023.Green Heron, Orlando Wetlands, October 2023.A youngish Green Heron is perched atop a branch for a birds-eye view of Black Point Wildlife Drive in September 2023.A very young Green Heron peeks out from the mangrove along the Black Point Wildlife Drive in July 2023.I’ve seen a lot of Green Herons on Merritt Island, but never saw one posed like this along Black Point Wildlife Drive in July 2023.This Green Herons tries to blend in with the green of the mangrove on Biolab Road in July 2023.Green Heron, Orlando Wetlands, August 2023.It was a hot day, but still seemed unusual for this Green Heron to wade into a pond up to its neck on the Black Point Wildlife Drive.
