* Heron Foods, a frozen food shop in the United Kingdom

The former Woolworths store soon reopened as Heron Frozen Foods, a fast growing Yorkshire based food retailer.

Hero of Alexandria ( Heron ) ( c. 60 ) described a principle of reflection, which stated that a ray of light that goes from point A to point B, suffering any number of reflections on flat mirrors, in the same medium, has a smaller path length than any nearby path.

The Fleet Air Arm has a museum near RNAS Yeovilton ( HMS Heron ) in Somerset, England at which many of the great historical aircraft flown by the Service are on display, along with aircraft from other sources.

In the BBC radio dramatizations, Gandalf has been voiced by Norman Shelley in The Lord of the Rings ( 1955 – 1956 ), Heron Carvic in The Hobbit ( 1968 ), Bernard Mayes in The Lord of the Rings ( 1979 ) and Sir Michael Hordern in The Lord of the Rings ( 1981 ).

This has been apparent with numerous new buildings-most notably skyscrapers such as The Shard, and the Heron Tower.

The property has vast trails, streams and brooks, a waterfall and Blue Heron Pond for swimming and boating.

Little Blue Heron has all-white juvenile plumage.

The airline has operated at least three models each from Douglas, Fokker and Boeing, in addition to the de Havilland Heron and British Aerospace 146.

The Flight of the Heron has been made into a TV serial twice: by Scottish Television in eight episodes in 1968, and by the BBC in 1976.

Cale has produced or collaborated with Lou Reed, Nico, La Monte Young, John Cage, Terry Riley, Hector Zazou, Cranes, Nick Drake, Mike Heron, Kevin Ayers, Brian Eno, Patti Smith, The Stooges, The Modern Lovers, Art Bergmann, Manic Street Preachers and frontman James Dean Bradfield, Marc Almond, Squeeze, Happy Mondays, LCD Soundsystem and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

The Great Blue Heron is replaced in the Old World by the very similar Grey Heron, which differs in being somewhat smaller ( 90 – 98 cm ), with a pale gray neck and legs, lacking the browner colors that Great Blue Heron has there.

The subspecies differ only slightly in size and plumage tone, with the exception of subspecies occidentalis, which as well as normal colored birds, also has a distinct white morph, known as the Great White Heron ( not to be confused with the Great Egret, for which " Great White Heron " was once a common name ).

The theory that Great White Heron may be a separate species ( A. occidentalis ) from Great Blue Heron has again been given some support by David Sibley.

The Grey ( which occupies the same ecological niche in Eurasia as the Great Blue Heron ) has very similar plumage but has a solidly soft-gray neck.

The most atypical bill is owned by the Boat-billed Heron, which has a broad thick bill.

The wings are broad and long, exhibiting 10-11 primaries primaries feathers ( the Boat-billed Heron has only nine ), 15-20 secondaries and 12 rectrices ( 10 in the bitterns ).

Note, however, that the name Great White Heron has occasionally been used to refer to the Great Egret.

Among the sixteen fables included, some four derive from La Fontaine-the Heron, the Lion and the Mouse, the Dove and the Ant, the Sick Lion ,-a fifth borrows a moral from another of his but alters the details, and a sixth has as apologue a maxim of Antoine de La Rochefoucauld.

This feeding method has led some to title the green and closely related Striated Heron as among the world's most intelligent birds.

The Black-crowned Night Heron ( Nycticorax nycticorax ), commonly abbreviated to just Night Heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia ( where it is replaced by the closely related Rufous Night Heron, with which it has hybridized in the area of contact ).

Heron of Alexandria is noted for deriving this formula and with it encountering the imaginary number, the square root of negative one.

A modern proof, which uses algebra and is quite unlike the one provided by Heron ( in his book Metrica ), follows.

The Great Blue Heron was one of the many species originally described by Carolus Linnaeus in his 18th century work, Systema Naturae.

However, one species formerly considered to constitute a separate monotypic family Cochlearidae, the Boat-billed Heron, is now regarded as a member of the Ardeidae.

The Purple Heron is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds ( AEWA ) applies.

Richard Creagh-Osbourn commented in the Dinghy Yearbook 1964 that the Mirror ' was one of the two best one design dinghies drawn by Jack Holt-the other being the Heron '.

In 1801 one was published with annotations by Robert Heron.

Most racing dinghies can be classified as being either single handed ( one person only ) such as the Laser, RS Vareo or double handed, such as the 470, 505, Heron, Tasar, Flying Junior, International Fireball or the International Fourteen.

She was the widow of one Thomas Tyrell of Heron, Essex, who died after 3 July 1471 and whom she married before 17 February 1461 / 1462.

The building was developed in 2001 – 2003 by Canary Wharf Group as one of five new buildings on its Heron Quays site.

The New Democrats have only won one poll in recent memory, and that was a poll in Heron Gate in 2004.

There is one tower block located within Wylde Green, Heron Court, which is behind The Lanes Shopping Centre, which also has flats above retail floors.

It is possible one may see a Great Blue Heron or Great Egret fishing around.

Heron Island Research Station suffered a large fire on Friday, 30 March 2007, just one day after a large group from Maclean High School left the island.

The area has numerous sports facilities, including an indoor arena at Heron Park and two swimming pools, one of which is indoor.

In about 1533, William married Gertrude, youngest child of Sir John Tyrell of Little Warley Hall ( d. February 28, 1541 ; member of a younger branch of the Tyrells of Heron Hall, East Horndon, one of the old Essex families ) and his wife Anne ( daughter of Sir William Norris and his wife Joane or Jane, a daughter of the 12th Earl of Oxford ).

A dense forest conceals the ruined hospital buildings, and from the 1980s through the early 2000s it supported one of the area's largest nesting colonies of Black-crowned Night Heron.

Also in June, they collaborated with Mike Heron of The Incredible String Band for a one off show at the legendary 17, 500 capacity venue, the Hollywood Bowl opening for Gilberto Gil and Devendra Banhart.

Donna the Buffalo is one of the founding and host band of the annual Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance along with the Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival and headliners at The Great Blue Heron Music Festival in Sherman, New York.

During the 1990s Cant starred as ' Brian ' the farmer in the children's puppetry television programme Dappledown Farm, as well as providing the voice for one of the characters, Harry the Heron.

The Heron Quays area of The Isle of Dogs was one of the first areas of the London Docklands to be redeveloped following the formation of the LDDC by an act of parliament in 1980.

They were followed and trapped by police who detained the group while they were attempting to arrest Brian Heron, one of the IMG leaders.

A Pied Heron in one of the zoo's walk-in aviary | aviaries.