Show Navigation

imediaSmith photography, writing, production.

  • Portfolios
  • More Pictures
    • All Galleries
    • Search
    • Cart
    • Lightbox
    • Client Area
  • Video
  • iMediaBlog
  • You Need Us When ...
  • About
    • imediaSmith
    • Greg Smith
    • Janet Smith
    • Licensing Rights
    • Our Philosophy
    • Clients
  • Contact

imediaSmith photography, writing, production.

Wildlife & Nature Galleries All Galleries
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
x
Add to Cart
Download

43 images Created 17 Nov 2015

Herons

As I explored life on a salt marsh, I came to know many a heron, beginning with great blues. They allowed me to sit with them as they patiently hunted. I learned their different molts. I awoke at night to squawks in the oaks near my windows. After years, I finally found my way into the lives of their smaller and secretive cousins, especially the little blue, tricolored and little green herons. And then the wood storks, threatened in Florida and moving to our river, slowly showed me their odd fishing methods in which they wait for a creature to touch their probing beak and seize it with the fastest reaction time known in nature.
View: 100 | All

Loading ()...

  • A tricolored heron fishes in a quickly draining tidal creek in the May River.
    1011_1015-TricoloredSplash.jpg
  • A tricolored heron perches atop a snag in the marsh of the May River.
    0910_0899-Heron.jpg
  • A great blue heron perches in a moss-draped live oak along the May River.
    1212_0254-FullRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron perches in a moss-draped live oak along the May River.
    1212_0245-FullRez.jpg
  • A tricolored heron hangs out in the winter marsh of the May River.
    0112_1694-FullRez.jpg
  • A tricolored heron preens on the edge of a marsh of the May River.
    0112_0210-FullRez.jpg
  • A tricolored heron fishes in a quickly draining tidal creek of the May River.
    1011_1004-FullRez.jpg
  • A tricolored heron perches atop a snag in the marsh of the May River.
    0910_0882-Heron.jpg
  • A great blue heron roosts and preens in a live oak at high tide on the May River.
    1112_0385-Heron.jpg
  • A great blue heron perches in the fall morning light on a dead limb among trees and Spanish moss along the May River.
    1110_0515-FullRez.jpg
  • A tri-colored heron perches on a snag in the marsh of the May River near Bluffton, SC.
    D60_9799-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron stands ready to grab fish stirred up by a strand-feeding Atlantic bottle-nose dolphin.
    D60_17055-BaseRez.jpg
  • A tricolor heron plunges its beak after a fish or shrimp hiding among oysters in the cold January waters of the May River. Photo by Greg Smith/imediasmith.com.
    D60_17548-BaseRez.jpg
  • A tricolored heron plunges its beak after a fish or shrimp hiding among oysters in the cold January waters of the May River. Photo by Greg Smith/imediasmith.com.
    D60_17552-BaseRez.jpg
  • A tri-colored heron catches a shrimp amid oysters in the May River near Bluffton, SC.
    D60_17580-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron fishes from a mud bank at low tide in the morning light along a marsh edge in the May River.
    1110_0653-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron strikes at a shrimp in the shallows near a  mud bank at low tide in the May River.
    1110_0755-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron flies from a sand bar at low tide in the May River. Great blues are found in every continental American state, and they nest in several small heronries along the May River.
    0511_0609-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron stands amid fall color beside a lock on the C&O Canal near Great Falls Tavern.
    1110_0173-BaseRez.jpg
  • A tricolored heron peeks above a marsh in the May River on a fall morning.
    1111_0414-BaseRez.jpg
  • A tricolored heron peeks above a marsh in the May River on a fall morning.
    1111_0417-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron stands near an oyster rake atop a sand bar at low tide in the May River.
    0511_0605-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron flies from a sand bar at low tide in the May River.
    0511_0610-BaseRez.jpg
  • An American egret fishes near a great blue heron on mud bank at low tide in a marsh creek of the May River.
    0411_1120-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron tends its young in its meager nest in a tall pine perched on a hummock in the May River.
    0411_1362-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron tends its young in its meager nest in a tall pine perched on a hummock in the May River.
    0411_1372-BaseRez.jpg
  • An elusive least bittern in mating plumage perches, likely near its hidden nest, at the edge of a May River salt marsh.
    505_397-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron tends its young in its meager nest in a tall pine perched on a hummock in the May River.
    0411_1502-BaseRez.jpg
  • An elusive least bittern in mating plumage perches, likely near its hidden nest, at the edge of a May River salt marsh.
    505_420-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron tends its young in its meager nest in a tall pine perched on a hummock in the May River.
    0411_1526-BaseRez.jpg
  • An elusive least bittern in mating plumage perches, likely near its hidden nest, at the edge of a May River salt marsh.
    505_423-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron tends its young in its meager nest in a tall pine perched on a hummock in the May River.
    0411_1534-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron perches on one leg atop a live oak limb along the May River.
    D60_36221-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron stands on the edge a salt marsh at low tide.
    D60_22349-BaseRez.jpg
  • A little blue heron in mating plumage perches on a dead limb along the shore of the May River.
    D60_22192-BaseRez.jpg
  • A little blue heron in mating plumage poses with the catch of the day along the shore of the May River.
    D60_22166-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron flies from its fishing spot at low tide in the marsh of the May River.
    D60_22399-BaseRez.jpg
  • D60_22959-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron flies over the May River.
    D60_27644-BaseRez.jpg
  • The white plumage of a juvenile little blue heron reflects in the May River.
    D60_32568-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron pauses from fishing in the shallows at low tide in the morning light along a marsh edge in the May River.
    405_890-BaseRez.jpg
  • A great blue heron ruffles his mating feathers while standing in the low-tide shallows of the May River near Bluffton, SC.
    405_937-BaseRez.jpg
  • Great Blue Heron perches on dead limb among live oaks.
    705_523-BaseRez.jpg