Showing posts with label great white heron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label great white heron. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Great White's Evening Hunt ...

“Knowledge is life with wings.”

   ~ William Blake

    ~ 1757 ~ 1827

Showing off its wingspan, a Great White Egret – also called a Great White Heron – reflects in the Jordan Creek as it dips its long, sharp bill under the water to spear its prey while hunting for supper on a warm and beautiful mid-August evening as sunset approaches at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.


 

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Peering Atop The Apple Tree ...




“Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me,
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me, no, no, no!
Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me …”

            ~ “Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree 
                  (With Anyone Else But Me)
    ~  Sam H. Stept, composer 
      ~ Lew Brown & Charles Tobias, writers
         ~ A popular song made famous by Glenn Miller & by The Andrews Sisters during World War II. Its lyrics are the words of two young lovers who pledge their fidelity while one of them is away serving in the war. It remained in “Your Hit Parade’s” first place from October 1942 through January 1943, the longest period for a war song to hold first place.


“Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me” ~ perhaps that’s what this Great White Egret – also known as a Great White Heron – is thinking as it almost seems to be waving while peering from atop an apple tree while on the hunt on an August evening at Cedar Creek Parkway,
Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Friday, August 8, 2014

The Morning Hunt ...


A Great White Egret, also known as a Great White Heron, is on the hunt in the sun splashed waters of the Jordan Creek
on a summer morning at Trexler Nature Preserve, 
Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.