This is a compilation of videos taken of the blue heron that visits a local pond each year, throughout March and April of this year. The videos have been arranged to form a loose narrative.
Blue Heron, March & April 2017
G. M. Lupo
Animals, Birds, Chamblee, DeKalb, Georgia, Herons, United States, Words, Writing
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G. M. Lupo is an author and award-winning playwright living in Middle Georgia. His play, Opposites Detract, premiered at Amplifest by Merely Players Present in 2019 and his work A Debt to Pay, premiered at Tapas III, Academy Theatre, Hapeville, GA in June 2018. His full-length play, Another Mother, won the 2017 Essential Theatre Play Writing Award, and received its world premiere in Atlanta in August 2017. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild. His most recent publication is Rebecca, Too (2018), a novel, available at online book sellers and in eBook format at Books2Read.com/RebeccaToo. View all posts by G. M. Lupo
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That’s a nice conversation starter at a party. Having your head and shoulders hunched down and then very slowly extending your neck.
I keep wondering what it’s seeing. There are giant goldfish in the pond (koi?) but they’re larger than the heron. It must eat minnows and guppies.
I love the way it walks like a creepy perv.
They’re interesting to video. Slow meticulous movements leading to insanely long periods of inactivity. I edited out about five minutes of it standing motionless in the water. Then it does something like stalk something in the pond or fly away. The latest times, it’s been more active than usual, walking around on the sidewalk or flying off toward someplace else.
He should take Bill O’Reilly’s time slot.
I need to add some music to it. I know a lot of musicians.
I think 80’s death metal would be the most appropriate.