Green Heron

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Green herons mainly eat small fish, frogs and aquatic arthropods, but may take any invertebrate or vertebrate prey they can catch, including such animals as leeches and mice.
They are intolerant of other birds when feeding and are not seen to forage in groups. They typically stand still on shore or in shallow water or perch upon branches and await prey.
Sometimes they drop food, insects, feathers, or other small objects on the water's surface to attract fish, making them one of the few known tool-using species.
Like many herons, this species is slow and methodical, patiently stalking small aquatic prey with movements so slow and measured that the animal virtually oozes closer to its victim millimeter by millimeter.
At parks and refuges with many visitors, they can become quite habituated to people and easy to approach.

Our photo of the day would have to be of the green heron. What a surprise to find him very near our feet! We had not seen him before and it was hard to imagine that he had a long neck which was just retracted.