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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: jnish on December 24, 2017, 08:13:10 AM

Title: Unexpected Bird in the Forest!
Post by: jnish on December 24, 2017, 08:13:10 AM

I came across this lone heron while on my early morning hike in Pickering yesterday!

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4599/27485195749_03ab4b9d74.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/HSLP8k)IMG_5333_1_1_1 (https://flic.kr/p/HSLP8k) by Jane Nishikawa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/138568556@N08/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Unexpected Bird in the Forest!
Post by: Paul O'Toole on December 25, 2017, 01:50:59 PM

The great blue heron is a pretty hardy bird and a few will often hang on through the winter as long as there is some open water around somewhere.