Grey Heron (watercolour subject)

[colincurry]

I have posted a watercolour painted by my wife from a snap of a grey heron I took last week at Fen Drayton. Someone asked me if I had posted the photo - well, here it is amongst others.

We were on the last leg of a pretty epic trip with lots of finches, tree creepers, another heron with a flatfish; and my guv'nor stopped to pick some more blackberries.

I thought that I would sneak along the ditch behind the blackberry bushes and see what was on the lake. As I crept (obviously not quietly enough) around the final bush, this grey heron erupted from the lakeside and flew away from me







We packed up and went towards the village and bus stop. I know where all the gaps in the hedge are and saw that the heron had alighted on top of a post on the edge of the lake



This is the subject of the watercolour.....

Colin

[deer boy]

Super shots Colin & Mrs Curry has the pic spot on

[naturegirl]

I am on the Romney Marsh in south east kent and we get lots of Herons here, lovely birds, unless you have a Carp pond!!

Naturegirl

[djackso]

Originally Posted by colincurry

This is the subject of the watercolour.....

Colin

Mrs Curry certainly didn't miss a thing - that painting was a very good likeness.