A Blue Heron Fishes In The Marsh In Salt Peter Creek In Baltimore County Maryland. Stock Photo

The great blue heron is a slat gray with a slight azure blue tint. The flight feathers are grey and it has red-brown thighs, and a paired red-brown and black stripe up the flanks the neck is rusty-gray, with black and white streaking down the front the head is paler, with a nearly white face, and a pair of black or slate plumes runs from just above the eye to the back of the head.