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Posted By: Gary Benson
What is this bird? - 09/28/20 11:51 PM
Yes, a long legged water bird. Whats the proper name?☺
Posted By: Hydropillar
Re: What is this bird? - 09/28/20 11:52 PM
i think its a kingfisher
Posted By: KYtrapper2005
Re: What is this bird? - 09/28/20 11:53 PM
Kingfisher is what we call em
Posted By: Paul Dobbins
Re: What is this bird? - 09/28/20 11:54 PM
Looks like the Great Blue Herons we have here -
https://pixabay.com/photos/great-blue-heron-nature-bird-744257/You have to be really careful releasing them from a beaver snare. That beak is wicked.
Posted By: tlguy
Re: What is this bird? - 09/28/20 11:54 PM
Maybe a great blue heron, hard to tell size.
Posted By: Brian Mongeau
Re: What is this bird? - 09/28/20 11:55 PM
Looks like a blue heron.
Posted By: k9-hunter
Re: What is this bird? - 09/28/20 11:56 PM
definitly not a kingfisher kingfishers fly and dive into the water for food that bird is a wading bird like a heron could be a blue heron but hard to tell
Posted By: BernieB.
Re: What is this bird? - 09/28/20 11:57 PM
Great blue heron they are very common in the midwest.
Posted By: warrior
Re: What is this bird? - 09/28/20 11:59 PM
Great Blue, be careful spooking them at close range they tend to crap as they go.
Posted By: Pawnee
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 12:10 AM
Blue Heron
Posted By: tomahawker
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 12:18 AM
Leg bones make good pipe stems
Posted By: Sharon
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 12:22 AM
Great Blue Heron.
At first I expected to see what the southerners call a snake bird....the Anhinga .
Posted By: Fisher Man
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 12:24 AM
Definitely an Oh No bird..Three foot legs, four foot testicles. Yells "Oh No" every time it comes in for a landing.
Posted By: ~ADC~
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 12:43 AM
Shag poke
Posted By: 653
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 12:49 AM
this
Posted By: Gary Benson
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 12:49 AM
Thanks guys. This is in Florida.
Posted By: Sharon
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 12:55 AM
Great Blues are in FLA.
There are several other species of heron there as well but this pic looks like so many have guessed.
Posted By: Bruce T
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 12:58 AM
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Posted By: ~ADC~
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 12:58 AM
this
They been called that all my life.
Posted By: bctomcat
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:12 AM
Known as a blue heron up here in BC, and as Paul stated be carful releasing them from a trap that beak is wicked.
Posted By: cwtrapper
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:16 AM
They been called that all my life.
That's old school. Haven't heard that in quite a while.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:25 AM
Great blue heron for sure.
Posted By: cohunt
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:26 AM
Never heard anyone ever call a heron a shite poke. That is a common name for the least bittern or slough pump.
Posted By: traprjohn
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:34 AM
Never heard anyone ever call a heron a shag poke. That is a common name for the least bittern or slough pump.
Agreed
Yours is a GBH
Great Blues are very common here.
Posted By: The Beav
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:36 AM
Posted By: The Beav
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:38 AM
Posted By: wallfur
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:44 AM
its the stork....congratulations!!!
Posted By: Kired
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:47 AM
Never heard anyone ever call a heron a poke. That is a common name for the least bittern or slough pump.
I've heard them called that here on occasion.
Posted By: Flipper 56
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:47 AM
Blue Heron, saw one eat 2 hatches of baby mallards on my pond this year. To many of them, they will spear a dog in the eye with that beak.
Posted By: Jonesie
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:51 AM
blue heron I had one in a 110 one time don't want to have another one.
Posted By: TC1
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:53 AM
My father's family has always called them -t stringers, replace the c with an s. Claimed because of the way they protect their nest and young. A pretty messy affair if you've ventured too near.
Posted By: Jasper69
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 01:55 AM
My dad used to call them a shy poke. Don't know where he got the name. He was not an ornithologist.
Posted By: warrior
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 02:34 AM
Thanks guys. This is in Florida.
FL has a white version of the great blue. Easily confused with the many other white herons and egrets in FL.
Posted By: Diggerman
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 02:41 AM
The common name here is s -taquarts, after their preflight ritual.
Posted By: grapestomper
Re: What is this bird? - 09/29/20 03:55 PM
blue heron.
Posted By: 52Carl
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 02:21 AM
My grandpaw called them s -epoke. "Squirts a stream as long as a boat when he takes off, he does."
Posted By: Northof50
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 02:30 AM
Experience speaks truthfully here now.
Posted By: Sanford Otte
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 03:14 AM
Great blue heron, very common in Nebraska.
Posted By: goatman
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 11:19 AM
Frog sticker. I've also seen one puke a bluegill after being surprised.
Posted By: J.Morse
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 01:43 PM
Yep, Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias). My mother always called them a Shitepoke too. *hit-stringer was a common nickname here as well. As Warrior stated, Florida does, indeed, have a white version called, aptly, a Great White Heron. They are most common around Florida Bay in the Everglades. When I was a younger fellow they were considered a separate specie, now those bird nerds say they are simply a color morph of a regular Great Blue.
About 15 years ago the All Purpose Boy and I were bowfishing one of the canals off Houghton Lake, not far from home. We saw a Great Blue Heron struggling along shore a short ways ahead of us. As we got up to the poor beast we found it was fighting to escape from a good sized snapping turtle. The turtle had it square by the Taint. My boy reached in a grabbed the turtle by the tail, and when he lifted it from the water it was left with a mouth full of taint feathers and the heron crawled weakly off into the bushes. That bird wouldn't have survived had we not come along. I sorta felt sorry for the turtle as well.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 01:52 PM
We used to kill all the perch we caught and throw them out of the boat while panfishing...the Blue herons would eat them all.
Posted By: Wanna Be
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 01:53 PM
That’s just one of a catfish farmers worst nightmares.
Posted By: Lugnut
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 02:18 PM
That’s just one of a catfish farmers worst nightmares.
Any pond owner too. I've had trouble with them for many years. Folks might be surprised how big of a fish they can eat.
Posted By: Trapper7
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 02:32 PM
My cousin used to call them "Slough Pumpers". It's definitely a Blue Heron.
Posted By: TrapperDR
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 04:35 PM
They aren't worth eating. They taste slightly better than hawk but lack the juicyness/flavor of horned owl.
Posted By: Wanna Be
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 04:59 PM
Taste about the same as a merganser. Don’t care for either!!
Posted By: teepee2
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 06:24 PM
That’s just one of a catfish farmers worst nightmares.
Any pond owner too. I've had trouble with them for many years. Folks might be surprised how big of a fish they can eat.
I seen one eat a soft-shell turtle one time it, looked like a dinner plate going down that long skinny neck.
Posted By: Lugnut
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 06:51 PM
They about cleaned out the panfish and crappie bass in my smaller pond. They eat the frogs too. I send the dogs after them when I see them.
Posted By: jbyrd63
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 07:44 PM
we call them George birds
Posted By: Trapset
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 08:40 PM
You have to be really careful releasing them from a beaver snare. That beak is wicked.
#1ls as well. Who’d a thought that would hold one of those. I almost lost an eye. Turns out there’s a difference between cowering, and coiling! Lmao
Posted By: Tray
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 10:47 PM
This is one I photographed in Florida with a American eel. They can be very hard on the baby duck populations.
Posted By: Cragar
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 11:00 PM
You have to be really careful releasing them from a beaver snare. That beak is wicked.
#1ls as well. Who’d a thought that would hold one of those. I almost lost an eye. Turns out there’s a difference between cowering, and coiling! Lmao
Be aware , yes the beak is a good weapon but the aim is what gets you. They instinctively go for your eyes. To blind you or at least mess up your vision is a very effective strategy.
I had to remove one GBH coiled up in fishing line 5ft above the water as I was assisting a game officer. First thing I grabbed was it's upper neck to control it. Safety glasses or a face shield would be a good thing to wear getting near one like I did.
Posted By: Bruce T
Re: What is this bird? - 09/30/20 11:55 PM
Never heard anyone ever call a heron a shite poke. That is a common name for the least bittern or slough pump.
Lol most of Maine does.
Posted By: trapperman222
Re: What is this bird? - 10/01/20 02:13 AM
They taste like a cross between an eagle and a snowy egret . Nothing like chicken.
Posted By: Actor
Re: What is this bird? - 10/01/20 02:53 AM
Great Blue Heron ... in Ohio we always called the Bittern a Shite Poke...
Garry-
Posted By: trapNH
Re: What is this bird? - 10/01/20 09:44 AM
Like the boss said.
Posted By: Diggerman
Re: What is this bird? - 10/01/20 11:31 AM
Neighbor told me they were protected, I beg to differ.
Also called a gooney bird in this neck of the prarie! Was trapping coon on the river with a friend, He had a set that he couldn't keep them out of. Three in three days, his nickname after that was "birdman"!
Posted By: CTRAPS
Re: What is this bird? - 10/01/20 03:57 PM
My Grandpa used to call them "Cream S...ers" because he said when they took off, they would drop a quart of cream.
We used to use a Heron decoy when duck hunting in the marsh. It was used as a confidence decoy as a heron is usually one of the first things to take off when they see something they don't like. If they are still around, other birds seem to think everything is ok.