I have just moved to Edmonds from Rhode Island. I photographed a Great Blue
Heron today at the Edmonds Marina. The bird has much more black on the
flanks that I see back East. Is this a regional variation, a molting phase,
or what? I would appreciate information about this.



The bird photo is in the album at
http://picasaweb.google.com/MarkNeudorfer/PugetSoundWinter200708.



Mark Neudorfer

Edmonds, WA

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