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I hey apparently are roosting along Indian Head Stream. When my dog and I take our daily walks around the pond, they fly off with their necks retracted, endlessly more graceful than the Canada geese who try to claim exclusive rights to the pond.
Great Blues prefer to roost and nest in trees along drainages that feed into the wetlands in which they hunt.
Once, during a Nature Conservancy tour of Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge, I was startled to see more than a dozen pairs of herons flying from their rookery along a creek toward the Potomac River, apparently on the way to shop for food for their growing young.
More gray than blue, these herons are the largest wading bird in Virginia, standing four feet tall and having a wingspan of more than six feet.
They wade in shallow salt or fresh water to hunt
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