Great Blue Herons are in decline here, but a good number of them are around. They seem to be staying longer each year as temperatures rise.
The one shown here was doing her fan dance and hunting in Patten Bay yesterday.
If this year is like the last few, virtually all the Great Blues will have left here by the end of October.
A few demented ones will over-winter, doomed to continually searching for fish-containing wading water that is not iced-in. They sometimes are seen on our Christmas bird counts. By mid-March, many migrating Great Blues are back. (Surry, Maine)