Photo - Great blue encounter

Marcia Ranger had a close encounter with a great blue heron June 5, and snapped this photo. The bird “was hanging out along Long Lake Road, by the culvert just before Chief Lake Road,” she said in an e-mail sent to Northern Life.

According to nationalgeographic.com, great blue herons are waders, typically seen along coastlines, in marshes, or near the shores of ponds or streams.

They are 3.2 to 4.5 feet long, and have a 5.5 to 6.6 foot wingspan. 

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