APOD: Bird Sun Dog (2013 May 27)

K1NS · Post by **K1NS** » Tue May 28, 2013 1:32 pm

The bird is a Grey Heron Ardea cinerea, flying of course from left to right. By the shape of the wings and neck, this bird is surely a large heron. The only large heron to regularly occur in Spain is the Grey heron. QED.

K1NS · Post by **K1NS** » Tue May 28, 2013 3:19 pm

K1NS wrote:The bird is a Grey Heron Ardea cinerea, flying of course from left to right. By the shape of the wings and neck, this bird is surely a large heron. The only large heron to regularly occur in Spain is the Grey heron. QED.

Oh, by the way, I am quite confident that this bird is indeed a Grey Heron. It is based on 40 years experience watching birds and just as much evidence, for example, as the assertion that the Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Ornithologists are scientists, too.

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Tue May 28, 2013 5:55 pm

Could be a chartreuse heron. You can't prove it isn't!

karimphotography · Post by **karimphotography** » Sat Jun 08, 2013 1:53 pm

At 5pm on may 27, 2013, same day as this post was put up, I looked up in the sky and saw a Sun Dog. It was about 5pm in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Here are the photos I took.

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Sat Jun 08, 2013 2:01 pm

Hey Karim, I don't think those are sundogs but rather iridescent clouds.

Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 1:10 pm

K1NS wrote:The bird is a Grey Heron Ardea cinerea, flying of course from left to right.

yes. forgiveness for not having appeared before.

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