Great Blue Herons are the largest species of North American Herons. The feathers on their neck and chest continue to grow and fray, but it is the down that they collect with their fringed claw on their middle toes that protect it from disease . Herons use their powdery down like a wash cloth to cleanse fish oils and slime from their feathers. It is not, however, just fish that they eat! Great Blue Herons eat nearly anything including fish, amphibians, reptiles, small mammals, insects, and other birds.
American Black Ducks
Sugar Maple, White Pine, and the lake
Duck Potato
Swamp Milkweed
Goldenrod and Purple Loosestrife
