White Faced Heron

Around the corner from the castle we came upon this White Faced Heron sitting up on someone's roof.
Like all Herons, it is a water bird which is where you always see them. So what on earth was this one doing up on a roof. Very strange goings on in this neighbourhood.

[Tony Guest (snoopybooboo)]

Fantastic capture. Fav.

[sally agnew]

Nice capture Poppo, we have 4 of these chaps sitting around in one of the big ironbarks, they don't hang around when we walk by. We have several dams locally, so I guess that is their other hangout :)

[Kerry]

Sentry duty I think.

[Denise Wood]

Obviously keeping an eye out for undesirables in the neighbourhood :)

[Robyn]

Lovely capture

[Lee-Ann]

Nice bird.

[Tony]

Nicely spotted and captured.

[Peter]

Brilliant capture Terry fine detail against the sky not an easy shot:)

[Rick Schies]

He's standing proud

[Martin Jalkotzy]

Great shot, Terry. I have seen great. Blue herons on all sorts of buildings; my favourite was a houseboat at Gibson's Landing on the Pacific coast.

[Candace]

We are 8 blocks from the river they perch on my neighbor's roof to scope out her Koi!

[Islandgirl]

Wow very cool capture Terry.............esp out of their natural habitant!

[Shirley Banford]

Wow! He's posing for you. He could also be scoping out his dinner. Great capture.

[Joan Robillard]

Maybe a better perch to find the fish.

[Babs]

What a great find. They never look quite right above ground do they. Maybe he is lost and needs a better view

[Poppo Livy]

@mjalkotzy @sabanford @joansmor @onewing
I should have added that there was no water within cooee of where we were and the nearest fish would have been battered and wrapped in newspaper with a serve of chips.

[Graham Thresher]

Great shot

[Joan Robillard]

@terryliv Ah that does make a difference.

[Shepherdman's Wife]

great capture

[Anne Pancella]

What a beautiful heron.

[Susan C Clow]

Wow Terry, what a great shot. Big FAV

[Milanie]

Had to google him - looks like he lives in your part of the world only - shame- really neat looking heron. You sure got a wonderful shot of him against that blue sky - such good detail.

[Sandy]

Wonderful capture. He (or she) looks like he's guarding the neighborhood.

[Rachel]

Perhaps he'd heard about the bird club you have going at your house! An excellent shot.

[Sam]

Maybe they had a pool and he was looking to go for a swim!

[Kane Arlow]

Great shot, I got a shot of one of these in Echuca, They make a great subject.