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Title: Simmons Sunset

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Art by Norman Johnson

Explore St. Augustine, Florida

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Little Blue Herons

To make it easier to picture the little blue heron in the wild, browse the images below.

Little blue herons (egretta caerulea) are birds of quiet waters from estuaries, marshes, and tidal flats, to streams, swamps and flooded fields of the southeastern United States, coastal Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America into interior Brazil. Most birds are resident.

They usually forage in water 2" to 6" deep feeding on small fish, amphibians, crustaceans and insects. They only wade up to belly deep in the water. They typically stand and wait for prey or creep along slowly.

A Blush Of Mauve

A little blue heron rests on the branch of a dead tree on Bishops Harbor Road in Rubonia in Manatee County, Florida on a late summer's day in 2016.

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Mottled Little Blue Heron

This little blue heron in Hillsborough County's E.G. Simmons Park in Ruskin, Florida is going through its molt from the juvenile white phase to the adult blue phase resulting in a temporary mottled phase on a June 13, 2016 summer day.

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Black Tip

Immature little blue heron at Lettuce Lake Park in Tampa, Florida.

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Little Blue View

This is a little blue heron that I found in John Sargent Park, Tampa, Florida.

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Hesitation of Immaturity

This immature little blue heron was found in John Sargent Park in Tampa, Florida. As they mature they gradually turn a blue color. The best way to tell them from the white egrets is they have a blue bill with a black tip.

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