A Hedge of Herons and Other Birds I've Seen Lately

 Usually, on this blog, I put on videos of woodland animals. Today I will mostly put on some aquatic bird videos and pictures. Another change is that I have not put out a camera trap for this. All these have been recorded with a different camera.

First I shall put some brilliant heron footage on. Grey herons are one of my very favorite animals, so I was very pleased to get this footage. 

The plural for a group of herons is a hedge, hence the title. There are still more herons to come, but let's have a quick look at a cormorant.

Cormorants dive to catch fish, so they are often seen with their wings spread out, trying to dry them.

The next bird I am going to show you is probably the best-looking bird ever to be on the blog. This video shows two great crested grebes building their nest.

Here are some other aquatic birds:

A Mute Swan

A Moorhen

A Coot

Greylag Goose

Mallard Duck

That final picture was an extreme close-up of a mallard duck's head.

Finally, we have more brilliant heron photos and videos.

Here is a heron roosting in a tree.

                                       
And that is all the herons for today. But not all the birds for today.

A while back when we got an owl on the camera trap I said there would be buzzards in the next post. I know it has been a while since I posted, but I did record some badgers. Sadly though the footage got deleted on the computer. Anyway here is a great video of two buzzards flying very near to each other.

 

Here are some photos of buzzards.

That is all the footage I have had. One final thing is that I had a question about whether badgers are prey for foxes. The answer is no, as they prefer to keep away from each other. Sometimes though when they do have a fight it is most likely the badger will win. They are much larger whereas foxes are much smaller. Thanks for the question and if anyone does have a question ask in the comments. 

Thanks for reading!