{"id":8755,"date":"2013-09-07T09:58:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8755"},"modified":"2013-09-07T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T02:30:00","slug":"seen-gronking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8755","title":{"rendered":"Seen gronking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have heard them; I have seen them; but, this was the first time I watched as a heron called.<\/p>\n

The Great Blue Heron is usually quiet, but when it speaks it does so with a loud low-pitched GRONK—a sound that one might imagine emanating from a\u00a0Pterodactyl, some hundred and fifty million years ago.<\/p>\n

Almost touching the lakesurface, a juvenile heron opens its bill wide and emits a resounding gronk.
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