Great Blue Heron

Steve Forman photographed a great blue heron and a pair of mallards at Hager Pond in Marlborough.

Steve Forman photographed a double-crested cormorant and a great blue heron at Sudbury Reservoir in Southborough.

Steve Forman photographed a great blue heron, mute swans, and red-winged blackbirds at Farm Pond in Framingham.

Steve Forman photographed a common grackle, a great blue heron, a painted turtle, a red-winged blackbird, a pair of tree swallows, and a turkey at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge...

Dany Pelletier photographed this great blue heron at Mill Pond in Maynard.

Steve Forman photographed a great blue heron, a killdeer, a pair of ring-necked ducks, and wood ducks at Bartlett Pond in Northborough.

Steve Forman photographed great blue herons and double-crested cormorants at their nests on the Sudbury Reservoir in Southborough.

Steve Forman photographed these nesting great blue herons on the Sudbury Reservoir in Southborough.

Harold McAleer photographed this great blue heron along the Sudbury River in Lincoln.

Jon Turner photographed a Cooper's hawk, a downy woodpecker, hooded mergansers, and a great blue heron in Bolton.