Female Great Blue Heron In Mating Plumage Canvas Giclee Painting Size:10" x 20" and leap into the air

and leap into the air in a graceful and energetic dance

Pete Beach — artful

A fledgling is a young bird that has grown enough to acquire its flight feathers and is preparing to leave the nest and care for itself

Feathers starting to gain color and they have a youth vigor

Female Great Blue Heron In Mating Plumage Canvas Giclee Painting Size:10" x 20" and leap into the airPainting of a majestic Great Blue Heron. Great Blue Herons are the largest heron in North America. Spotted this one across the cove standing on a neighbors yard. I had not seen her on our cove before. It looked young, like she may be coming into her first mating season. The reason I assume its a female, we have a beautiful male that inhabits our cove and he usually chases other Great Blue Herons off. But he did not chase her off, I think he liked her.