[Leica] LAKE MAYER, is this a grey heron?

[j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)]

Thanks for looking at the picture and commenting! This could also be a Great 
Egret according to Doug Herr - white bird and black feather tips ... But 
definitely not a Grey Heron!Jean-Michel
 > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:48:45 -0700
> From: rcmphoto at yahoo.com
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] LAKE MAYER, is this a grey heron?
> 
> >From the patterning under the wing I think Great Blue.  It seems to me 
> >that it's a little too well defined to be just shadowing.  
> 
> 
> Nice shot...
> 
>  
> R. Clayton McKee
> PhotoJournalist
> from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
> 
> 
> >________________________________
> > From: "wildlightphoto at earthlink.net" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
> >To: lug at leica-users.org 
> >Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 10:42 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Leica] LAKE MAYER, is this a grey heron?
> > 
> >Jean-Michel Mertz wrote:
> >
> >>>>
> >Hello Luggers,Dusk was creeping in over Lake Mayer (early April) and I 
> >saw 
> >this bird obviously eager to be on my picture. Is this a grey heron? 
> >Jean-Michel<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Jean-Michel/SAVANNAH+2012/LAKE+
> >MAYER.html>
> ><<<
> >
> >If this is Lake Mayer in Savannah Georgia it's very unlikley it's a Grey
> >Heron (Ardea cinerea), which is typically a eurasian species.  If the
> >coloration is similar to the Grey Heron, it's most likely a Great Blue
> >Heron (Ardea herodias), or if it's a white bird (can't tell from this
> >photo) it's most likely a Great Egret (Ardea alba).
> >
> >Doug Herr
> >Birdman of Sacramento
> >http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> >
> >
> 
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