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HERON ORNAMENT - Bird Ornaments


HERON ORNAMENT ****Bird Ornaments****
heronornament1$24.00
These stately, highly detailed Heron Ornaments are handpainted to the "fussiest of standards". They can be hung on the wall all year long or placed on the Christmas tree year after year!
  • Each Heron Ornament is handcrafted in inks & acrylics on Sycamore using a wet-sculpting technique developed to give it a 3 dimensional appearance - like a bas relief.

  • Each Heron Ornament is approximately
    3 1/2" tall by 4 1/2" wide.

  • Each Heron Ornament will come in a gift box with a write-up about Herons done in calligraphy mounted on matboard.
    (Please see the write-up below.)

  • Each Heron Ornament is signed by the artist on its finished wood back.

    • This is the write-up that will come with the Heron Ornament:


    "With the happy thoughtlessness of a summer's day's walk, we followed the path out of the forest to an earthen dam which was making a small pond at the foot of a greater marsh. There we saw a Great Blue Heron who, like a scholar disturbed at his carrel by a group of chatty students, unobtrusively rose from his work and left for a more secluded venue.

    • ORDER: Ciconiiformes
    • FAMILY: Ardeidae (herons,egrets, & bitterns)
    • GENUS & SPECIES: Ardea herodias
    • SIZE: About 4 feet tall. Lives 15 years.
    • GEOGRAPHY: North America
    • HABITAT: haunts marshes, lake margins, rivers & small streams.
    • NESTING: Platform of sticks in swamp trees-usually in colonies.
      3 - 4 dull bluish eggs
      Both parents share incubation and feeding.
    • FLIGHT: Measured wing-beats with legs straight back & neck tucked in an S-shape.
    • Fossil remains of herons & ibises have been found from 40 million yrs. ago."



      Copyright L.Proper 1995





      Washington State Dept. of Fish & Wildlife (click here)
      Would you like to see Great Blue Herons? The WDFW site has really neat wildlife file video of Great Blue Herons nesting.(The site will open in a "new window" and you'll have to click the "X" at the top right of your screen to return to this page.)


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