Great Blue Heron flying coloring page

 

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Great Blue Herons flying

Blue Herons or the Great Blue Heron live in many parts of the world.  From a few parts of Southern Europe to the Galapagos Islands and over much of North America, Central America, and into some parts of northern South America. 

There are two types of Blue Heron.  The Great Blue Heron and the Little Blue Heron.  There is also a White Heron that may or may not be a subspecies.  Some ornithologists think the White Heron is a separate species.  

As far as size, the Great  Blue Heron is up to 54 inches or 137 cm long.  Their wingspan can be up to 79 inches or 201 cm.  The males are bigger than the female birds and the males can weigh up to 5.5 lbs. or about 2.5 kg.  

Great Blue Herons are a blue-gray color and they have a very long neck and long wader legs.  They are a beautiful bird.  We went to the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge near Brigham City, Utah, USA.  We went there twice in the past week.  We saw 5 Blue Herons and the Herons in my drawing are more or less based on some of the photos I took with my iPhone camera.  That bird refuge is on the way to where our daughter lives so we went to the bird refuge on the way.

The drawing can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the button labeled "Animals" or click on the NEW  button that says "Birds."  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list of drawings for this new drawing.  New drawings are always at the bottom of the list.  

I will soon post a few of the photos from the bird refuge. . . 

F-22 Raptor Fighter and the F-35 coloring pages

 

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F-22 Raptor.

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 aircraft

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F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter

The F-22 Raptor Fighter is a true Interceptor.  It was designed for air to air combat.  It can fly extremely fast and turn at high angles.  It is currently in service with the United States Air Force.  It is a stealth fighter and is pretty much invisible to radar. 

The F-22 is 62 feet long.  That is 18.8 meters.  It weighs 83,500 lbs or about 38,000 kg.. . when fully loaded with fuel etc.  It has a wingspan of 44.5 feet or about 13.6 meters.  It is 16.7 feet tall.  That is about 5 meters tall.  The two engines have a thrust of 35,000 lbs or 15,876 kg.  

The F-22 has a range of over 1,800 miles.  That is about 2,900 km.  It has a top speed with full afterburners of around 1,500 miles per hour.  That is 2,414 kilometers per hour.  This means that the    F-22 Raptor is a MACH 2 fighter.  It can fly twice the speed of sound!

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the "Vehicles" button at the top of the page.  Then remember to scroll to the bottom of the list because new drawings are found at the bottom of the lists of printable drawings.  The F-22 is now meant to be a support to the newer fighter-bomber called the F-35 Lightning II.  So I am posting my drawing of the F-35 below.  The F-35 is an amazing aircraft as well, but it is a dual role in that it is both a fighter aircraft and a bomber.  It can not match the speed of the F-22 because it is not an interceptor.  

F-35 Lightning Fighter-Bomber Jet Aircraft

Nanuqsaurus and Cryodrakon of the Cretaceous Arctic coloring pages

 

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Nanuqsaurus and Cryodrakon of the Cretaceous Arctic

Yes, there were dinosaurs and Pterosaurs in the Arctic.  During the late Cretaceous, there was a smaller Tyrannosaur and a very large Pterosaur.  The dinosaur was called Nanuqsaurus.  That name means "Polar Bear Lizard."  Nanuqsaurus was around 20 feet or 6 meters long.  It had the typical Tyrannosaur small arms with two claws.  It also had the smaller front teeth for tearing meat off of bones.  The bigger teeth were for crushing bone.  By the way, "nanuq" means "polar bear" in Inuktitut... which is the language of the Inuit Native Americans. . . who are the Eskimos.  By the way, although Nanuqsaurus was about half the size of a full-grown T. rex, I don't think a 20-foot long dinosaur is a small animal!

Cryodrakon was a very large Pterosaur.  In fact, it may have had a wingspan of close to 30 feet or 9 meters.  (Some estimates have it at around 16 feet but that may be due to the specimen that was being examined was a sub-adult or a juvenile.)  This Pterosaur or flying reptile was so big that it may well have eaten small vertebrates like baby dinosaurs.  When standing on the ground it may well have been as tall as a giraffe.   

NOTE:  This drawing can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the button labeled 

"Paleontology."  Scroll down to the bottom of the list for this new drawing.  Below are a couple of other drawings of these animals... from previous posts. 

Nanuqsaurus the Polar Bear Lizard

(There is the Aurora Borealis in the sky.)

Cryodrakon the Ice Dragon

(Notice the Nothern Lights in the sky?)

China the Doggy and her Beautiful Master coloring page

 

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Today's new drawing is of a doggy and her master.

China the Doggy and her Beautiful Master

China is a cute little doggy.  She is owned by a beautiful young woman.  The photo that was used to draw this picture is from the doggy and master in a car.  You can clearly see the seatbelt.  In my defense, it is very challenging to capture the physical beauty of a person in a coloring page drawing.  We know this person.  She is a grandniece of ours.  She is also beautiful on the inside.  True beauty is about what kind of person you are.  

This drawing can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the top button labeled "Animals."  (I don't have a "People" category.)  Scroll down after you click the "Animals" button because new drawings are found at the bottom of the list.  Also, you can probably get a better print of this drawing if you know how to capture and print the image on this main blog page.  It is scanned and saved in a PNG format and that is better than the PDF format of the "Printable" pages.    

Tree Fairies - Willow Tree Fairy with Hummingbird Egg coloring page

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She is holding a 

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Tree Fairies - Willow Tree Fairy with Hummingbird Egg

Willow Tree Fairies are some of the more slender Fairies.  Maybe this has to do with willow leaves being quite narrow.  This particular Willow Tree Fairy is also a friend to the Hummingbirds that nest in Willow Trees.  She is holding an egg that she inspected.  She has been caring for the Hummingbird chicks while the mother was out searching for nectar.  The mother Hummingbird is just coming home to her nest.  can see her flying in . . . in the background.  THIS Willow Tree Fairy is named Salicis.  That means Willow in Latin.  Most Fairies know Latin.  It is one of their primary languages.  You may have noticed that Salicis, who is also a Hummingbird Fairy... has wings like a hummingbird.  In fact, if you saw her flying you would see a hummingbird, not a Fairy.  This is because she would be using a Fairy concealment charm to make her look like a bird that we mortals are used to seeing. 

Willow Trees have been useful to both Man and Fairykind over the centuries.  Willow bark is rich in salicylates and that chemical has many medicinal uses.  In fact, both the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Native Americans used Willow Bark to help with fever and pain relief.  Eventually, this ingredient, salicylic acid, was used to make aspirin.   Willow trees are primarily riparian plants so they like to live near freshwater... such as rivers, lakes, and ponds.  Willows are found on all continents of the Northern Hemisphere. . . along waterways mostly.  

In English folklore, Willow Trees are supposed to be able to uproot themselves to chase after people.  This may be the source for J.R.R. Tolkien's Ents.  Ents are tree shepherds that look like trees of different species, but Ents can walk, talk, and fight.  Willows are important in other cultures and some religions as well.  

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Bear coloring pages

 

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Cave Bear in the Spring

Cave Bears were a large species of bear that lived over 15,000 years ago.  They were the size of a modern-day Grizzly Bear.  But the Cave Bear bones have been found primarily inside caves.  So it is thought that they frequented caves of shelter and not just for hibernation.  Their closest living relatives are the Grizzly Bears.  But Grizzly Bears usually only go into caves for hibernation.  

Cave bears lived in the last ice age.  There was one recently found that is completely intact.  It was frozen and global warming had melted the permafrost it was frozen in.  Even the nose was perfectly preserved.  This Cave Bear was found in Siberia... by reindeer herders. 

Cave Bears really were large.  When standing they were 10 feet 6 inches tall... that is about 3.5 meters. 

The majority of the males could weigh up to 1320 lbs.  That is around 600 kg.  Some specimen were even bigger than that.  Larger bones were found in a cave that are estimated to be from a male that weighed up to 2,200 lbs or 1,000 kg.  Female Cave Bears were smaller than the males.  The larger females were 550 lbs. or 250 kg.  

NOTE:  In this drawing, the male Cave Bear is just out of his cave after hibernation.  He is in the Tiaga Forest of Siberia and the snow is melting and only on parts of the forest floor.  In North America, we generally call the conifer forest up north the Boreal Forest.  

NOTE:  This drawing can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology."

Then scroll down for the new drawing.  New drawings are at the bottom of the page.  Below are two other bear drawings from older or previous posts. 

Grizzly Mother and Cub

Polar Bear Mother and Cubs

Schleitheimia schutzi and Caelestiventus hanseni coloring page

 

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Schleitheimia schutzi a Sauropodomorph

Schleitheimia schutzi is the name given to a newly discovered dinosaur that was discovered in Switzerland.  It was around 33 feet or 10 meters long.  It was a Sauropodomorph.  It was one of the transition species between the Prosauropods and the enormous Sauropods.  This newly discovered dinosaur lived in the Late Triassic Period and the Early Jurassic Period.  The species name of schutzi was for the name of the discoverer of the dinosaur.

The flying reptile or Pterosaur in the drawing is a late Triassic Pterosaur named Caelestiventus hanseni.  The species name of hanseni is for Robin Hansen the BLM (Beaurea of Land Management) Geologist who helped with the excavation of the fossil.  It was found in the Saints and Sinners Quarry in NE Utah, USA  (I've been to that quarry.) This Pterosaur was possibly the largest Triassic Pterosaur.  It had a wingspan of around 5 feet or about 1.5 meters.  

So, I must admit that the proportions in the drawing are kind-of off.  So to solve that situation I'll just say that the Pterosaur is in the foreground and the Sauropodamorph is farther back in the picture.  That will give you a more correct view.  After all, the Sauropodomorph was 33 feet long!  Of course, you could say that the Sauropodomorph, Schleitheimia schutzi, in the drawing is just a juvenile or sub-adult. 

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