Great Blue Heron

Steve Forman photographed great egrets, green herons, and great blue herons at Hager Pond in Marlborough.

Steve Forman photographed great blue herons, a least sandpiper, and a painted turtle at Hager Pond in Marlborough.

Steve Forman photographed a great blue heron, Halloween pennant dragonflies, and a red-winged blackbird at Farm Pond in Framingham.

Steve Forman photographed a spotted cucumber beetle, great blue herons, a cedar waxwing, a red-winged blackbird, a barn swallow, and a spicebush swallowtail butterfly in Southborough.

Steve Forman photographed this great blue heron at Grist Mill Pond in Sudbury.

Steve Forman photographed great blue herons, a house finch, a clouded sulphur, a Baltimore checkerspot, an eastern kingbird, and a silver-spotted skipper in Southborough.

Steve Forman photographed a common whitetail dragonfly, a great blue heron, and a killdeer at Hager Pond in Marlborough.

Steve Forman photographed a great blue heron, a painted turtle, and a red-winged blackbird at Grist Mill Pond in Sudbury.

Jon Turner photographed a nest of American robins, a red-tailed hawk with a gray squirrel, and a great blue heron in Harvard.

Steve Forman photographed an American robin, great blue herons at their nests, a bathing brown-headed cowbird, cedar waxwings, an eastern kingbird, a ruby-throated hummingbird, yellow warblers, a northern mockingbird, a...