This month Becky’s Squares are focusing on odd things – you can interpret this any way you want so I am going to take you all to the zoo this month. San Diego Zoo to be precise and the photos featured will be either odd looking animals, animals with odd names, odd facts or slightly odd photos. I hope you’ll enjoy my selection.
The Great Blue Heron is the largest of the North American herons with long legs, a sinuous neck, and thick, daggerlike bill. Within colonies territorial display includes ruffling the long breeding plumes. Highly adaptable, it thrives around all kinds of waters from subtropical mangrove swamps to desert rivers to the coastline of southern Alaska.
If you want to join in either daily, weekly or just on the odd occasion then please visit Becky, the only rule is that the main photo MUST be a square – that is four equal sides! You have been warned 😉


Wonderful creatures, aren’t they? We have to make do with their little grey cousins, but I love a sighting.
There are purple ones here!
!!! 🤣💗
Grey ones here and the white ibis. Never even heard of a purple one!
we have had one sighting of the purple, they are very shy so suspect that might be our one and only sighting! And MrB not 100% sure it was anyway!!
They are beuatiful! (At least I know this one, Jude)
Your squared photo is great!
That’s just what I was going to say! Wonderful portrait image
Odd angle.
Very nice
Wow, great images
He didn’t look too amused in the square shot.
Perhaps not, but odd angle or no, that was a fine image!
What a beautiful bird! Their colours and feather types are amazing.
Yes, herons are rather lovely. I remember getting very close to a Grey Heron in Canada.
Great photos Jude 🙂
Cheers Brian 😁
Something we see often in Beetley, so familiar at long last. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
Ah, I expect you see the grey herons
Probably. My eyes are not what they used to be, Jude. 🙂 🙂 x
That’s an unusual shot for the square because the head looks rather jowly, more like a duck than a heron, at least from that angle.
Wonderful photos, Jude.