The Grey Heron has a bill which cuts like a knife.
Wherever the Night Heron settles it does much harm among the fish.
Heron is on the look-out for them, and he does a lot of wading in the reeds and the swamps all the time the young Moorhens are about.
The Night Heron has been increasing in numbers in the British Islands during the last hundred years, so that it may now be ranked as an annual visitor to this country.
Judy o’ the Bog” is the name given to the Heron by the peasants in the south of Ireland.
An empty stomach has caused the Heron to leave his sanctuary in the Scotch firs that close in one end of the now frozen mere, and to come floating down to the river side.
The Night Heron nests with large numbers of its congeners in inaccessible spots in the marshes where marshy tracts and broom bush are close together.
Let me give here again a presentment of our Common Heron in the Marshlands of Kent.
Some dark heronor bittern rose croaking from beside the lagoon, then flapped awkwardly away.
I was here as early as any one, and I will not have my acquaintance the heron accused in his absence.
Sometimes she waited for him by the great menhir of Thrushel Coombe; sometimes at Plym Steps; sometimes in spots even more remote, haunted by the heron and the shadows of clouds.
For instance, Matilda Heron in Camille gave me a picture of poor Marguerite Gautier so deep and so vivid that I found it invaluable, years later, when I myself came to play Violetta in Traviata.
What in the world was so curious as a heron fountain?
For example: The Abbe de Gauvon had made me a present, some weeks before, of a very pretty heron fountain, with which I was highly delighted.
Over these enormous mud-flats, a foot or two of water is quite sufficient to drive all the birds ashore, even the tallest Heron or Flamingo, and the tide seems to flow at once over the whole expanse.
But we were under the mangroves; at a great distance on one of the flats, the Heron which I have named Ardea occidentalis[56] was seen moving majestically in great numbers.
The Heron heavily flew towards the land, like a glutton retiring at daybreak, with well lined paunch, from the house of some wealthy patron of good cheer.
Silence once more reigns around; only from time to time one hears the croak of a heron from the dusky shore.
Awful shrieks and whistling echoed over the water, and the heron flapped about the marshes to tell all the evil beings who lived there that Hiawatha was coming to fight with the great wizard.
When I shake my flowing ringlets," said the young man with a light laugh, "the warm rain falls on the hills and fields, and the wild geese and the heron come back to the marshes.
It is never safe to fly the goshawk at a heron of any description.
A heronfound at his feeding-place at a brook or pond affords no sport whatever.
Absurd stories have been told and pictures drawn of the heron receiving the falcon on its beak in the air.
It is, however, well known to all practical falconers that the heron has no power or inclination to fight with a falcon in the air; so long as he is flying he seeks safety solely from his wings.
It is sometimes advisable to fly a young falcon at a heron so found, but it should not be repeated.
If there be much water theheron will neither show sport nor be captured.
The Blue Heron I see the great blue heron Rising among the reeds And floating down the wind, Like a gliding sail With the set of the stream.
His early biographers, Currie, Walker, Heron drew the picture somewhat darkly; Lockhart and Cunningham have endeavoured to lighten the depth of the shadows.
Heron has described how a pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds.
Didst note the heron once did turn about, And show a certain anger with his wing, And make as if he almost dared, not quite, To strike the falcon, ere the falcon him?
God made the herons for the hawks to strike, And hawk and heron made he for lords' sport.
Algonquins and Hurons, Montagnais as well, bedaubed with yellow and red, While the plumes of the heron and eaglet wave forth, like flags from each clean-shaven head.
In the center of the line were several chiefs, who had great headdresses of eagle and heron plumes, and, as they advanced through the forest, all set up a vigorous yelping, similar to a pack of wolves in full cry.
Lift him gently, redskinned brothers, let no voice disturb his rest, Peace is here, the great blue heron wings his way from out the West.
In the next instant the snaky neck of the heron uncoiled itself and the javelin bill darted up at him like lightning.
The tall cock-heron was just settling upon the edge of the platform.
With a harsh quah-ah of despair, the heron strove to regain her position for another stroke.
In fact, he had no idea that any such creature as a blue heron existed.
But, before he was within striking distance, the narrow head of the heron was drawn far back between her shoulders, and the long straight javelin of her bill presented its point directly toward the attack.
The cry of the heron was natural enough, with a famous heronry so near, and it was only because of the exceptional stillness of the night that it drew her attention now.
And then, into that full stillness, in which no step moved or voice called or bird flew, there came the cry of a heron outside the door.
This is the largest heronthat we get in North America, surpassing even the Great Blue.
The nesting habits and eggs of this species are the same as those of the little Snowy Heron and the eggs cannot be distinguished with certainty.
Heron passed away, to the grief and loss of the whole foreign community, as well as that of the Koreans (and they were many) with whom he had come in contact, to all of whom he had endeared himself by untiring kindness.
A few days after my arrival in Seoul a messenger came from the queen, to bid me welcome, and inquire if I had had a pleasant journey, and shortly after Mrs. Heron asked some of the queen’s attendants to meet me at luncheon.
As soon as the symptoms began to look grave Mrs. Heronwas sent for.
Heron had taken his family there, and frequently traveled back and forth to his duties in Seoul, which was doubtless too much for his strength in those hot and humid days.
Heron had a large foreign and native practice, as well as a hospital school for the instruction of future drug clerks and medical students.
Heron and I had a joint dispensary, and here I was besieged at all hours by women desiring medical attention.
The antient pastime of heron hawking is still carried on in this county.
In a late Bristol paper there is an account of a heron having been shot near Carmarthen with a ring round one leg having the inscription: 'Major Wilson, Didlington Hall, Norfolk, 1822.
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