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Jonas Pilot Senior Member Registered: April 2005 Location: Wolfeboro, New Hampshire is my home, 24-7-365 Posts: 1,686	This guy was hanging around at the launch. It let me get close enough to shoot it with a 50m lens before it spooked.
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Rattlesnake Gal

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Registered: November 2003
Location: Central NH
Posts: 5,252

Thu June 16, 2011 1:21pm

These birds are so cool. A few summers ago while I was putting in my kayak, our Great Blue Heron startled me by landing on the dock right behind me! He was only a couple feet away. He hung around for almost an hour, fishing off the PWC and dock. It was neat to see it drop into the lake like a stone and come back out as if on an escalator. It hasn't been by for a long time now. I don't think The Broads are a normal habitat for GBH.

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Jonas Pilot
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Registered: April 2005
Location: Wolfeboro, New Hampshire is my home, 24-7-365
Posts: 1,686

Thu June 16, 2011 9:05pm

It reminds me of a pterodactyl when in flight. I agree about the habitat. they like the shallow weedy spots home to all the critters they find tasty. But now and then you can find 'em any place. I've had them visit my vernal pond and it's only about 20' x 10' about 6"deep and loaded with salamanders, bullfrogs, green frogs, pickerel frogs, wood frogs and spring peepers. I call it "My Mosquito Farm."