Great Blue Heron

Photograph of a bird, a Great Blue Heron, wading in a river. It is a large bird, facing left.  on the right side of the picture. It has a gray body and neck. Its head is white with a wide blue stripe the width of its head passing through its eye. Its beak is primarily yellow with some blue on the top. It has one leg and foot submerged in the water while the other is raised and is reaching toward the left.
The background is in 3 parts. The river is at the bottom, the mud bank is in the middle, and the top is green foliage.
Island Ford, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA; SEP 2025

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Cascade on Pond Creek

Image of a ravine in the early morning. The foreground is a rock feature spanning the width of the pictures. In 2 spots, small cascades of white water fall into a pool of water that reflects the trees above.  Behind the rock feature is the ravine. On the left side is a prominent tree trunk behind which are bushes covered in green leaves. On the right side is a hillside covered with trees and reddish-brown leaves.
Cascade on Pond Creek
Island Ford, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA; AUG 2025

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Brushstrokes in the Fog

The picture is of a river with part of its far side bank. The river is covered by light fog. There are rays of sunlight filtering in through openings in trees along the far bank. The sunlight highlights portions of the fog creating shafts of light that illuminate and reflect from the river.
Island Ford, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA; July 2025

A Great Blue Heron Takes to Flight

Island Ford, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA; July, 2025

Canada Geese

A scene with 2 Canada Geese at a pond in a woodland setting. One goose is laying in what appears to be a nest on a dark mound in the middle of the left side of the image. The other goose is floating on the pond in the lower right corner of the image. The geese have brown backs and wings with off-white lower body parts, a black neck and head, and a white spot on the side of the head. The top half, i.e. the background is green grass gray tree trunk a brown woodland debris. The fore ground is the pond reflecting the geese and background.
Nesting – Canada Geese; Island Ford
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA; APR 2025

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A Canada Goose standing in a puddle of water against a background of gray rocks. The goose has a brown back and wings with off-white lower body parts, a black neck and head, and a white spot on the side of the head.
Canada Goose
Island Ford, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA; APR 2025

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Birds Found Around Water

Three birds, Double-crested Cormorants, perched on a rock in a river. The middle bird is an adult that has its wing spread. The other 2 are juvenile sas distinguished by their  light tan neck and breast .
Adult and 2 Juvenile Double-crested Cormorant;
Island Ford, Chattahoochee NRA, Roswell, Georgia, USA; APR 2024

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In the upper right corner is a bird, a Double-crested Cormorant, in flight set against a background of blue sky with pale white clouds. On the left side is a tree with gray branches and green and brown leaves. There are several other cormorants in the tree.
Juvenile Double-crested Cormorant in Flight
Island Ford, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Roswell, Georgia, USA; NOV 2024
Canada Geese Along the Chattahoochee River
Island Ford, Chattahoochee NRA, Island Ford; FEB 2023
A bird, a Great Blue Heron perched on tree branch in the right side of the picture. The background is tree branches with brown and green leaves and a blue sky,
Great Blue Heron
Marymoor Park, Redmond, Washington, USA; NOV 2023

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Chattahoochee River in Morning Fog

First Light on the Chattahoochee
Island Ford, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Roswell, Georgia, USA; JUL 2024

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Canada Geese Taking a Nap
Island Ford, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Roswell, Georgia, USA; AUG 2024
Spider Web in Crepuscular Rays; Island Ford
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Roswell, Georgia, USA; AUG 2024

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