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Bo Zarts

(25,397 posts) Tue Mar 19, 2024, 08:32 PM Mar 19

Great Blue Herons Do the Happy Dance

Bent Oaks Rookery Park - Rockport, Texas
(Or maybe it is a "Rock-ery" park, in "Rookport," Texas)
February 2024 - ©2024 Bo Zarts Studio

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Great Blue Herons Do the Happy Dance (Original Post) Bo Zarts Mar 19 OP

Maybe they were courting? Anyway, great photo, my dear Bo! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 19 #1

I think so. SarahD Mar 19 #2

Full disclosure: They really aren't dancing. Bo Zarts Mar 19 #4

Hey, it's your photo! You can say anything you want! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 19 #5

Very cool photo! Diamond_Dog Mar 19 #3

It's a great capture! 2naSalit Mar 19 #6

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,627 posts)

1. Maybe they were courting? Anyway, great photo, my dear Bo!

Reply to Bo Zarts (Original post)

Tue Mar 19, 2024, 08:40 PM

Mar 19

SarahD

(1,185 posts)

2. I think so.

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 19, 2024, 08:49 PM

Mar 19

Sandhill cranes have a pair bonding dance where one throws a stick in the air and they both hop and flap like idiots. They will sometimes do it with people, but they just stared at me when ithrew a stick and hopped around.

Bo Zarts

(25,397 posts)

4. Full disclosure: They really aren't dancing.

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 19, 2024, 09:10 PM

Mar 19

They are both landing on a rock reef at the same time. But as the photographer and caption writer, I reserve the right to engage in anthropomorphism at my slightest whim.