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Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« on: March 29, 2009, 09:14:43 PM »
 How about 50+ Blue Heron nests? It was quite the sight, even more so when they spooked and all took off at the same time. Saw this on a little walk near my house tonight.

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2009, 09:46:06 PM »
How the hell do those clumsy *censored*s land in a tree ??
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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2009, 09:46:24 PM »
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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2009, 09:52:05 PM »
How the hell do those clumsy *censored*s land in a tree ??

it didn't look easy, thats for sure  :chuckle:

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2009, 10:55:38 PM »
Wow.  I never would have guessed the nest in trees.  I would have bet money they nested on the ground.

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2009, 11:10:04 PM »
woh thats cool

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2009, 05:23:56 AM »
Did you have your umbrella?

I wouldnt want to walk under there and then spook fifty poopers all at once!   :chuckle:
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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2009, 06:02:22 AM »
Nice Rookery.  Its almost prehistoric.  Theres a big one by Moses as well, but they have closed it off to access I believe this time of year. 

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2009, 11:30:22 AM »
here's a cool view of one from a helicopter along the pend oreille river.  They look like a Dr. Seuss cartoon- a giant bird standing on ten little twigs.

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2009, 01:53:17 PM »
Nice Rookery.  Its almost prehistoric.  Theres a big one by Moses as well, but they have closed it off to access I believe this time of year. 

This one closes in 2 days, from what I heard they weren't there a week ago.

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2009, 04:56:46 PM »
Ya, they nest on the Tree Top/ Zirkle Fruit land along the Yakima River.  Weired seen those birds in the tree top's.  Cool pics!
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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2009, 02:04:08 AM »
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Ya, they nest on the Tree Top/ Zirkle Fruit land along the Yakima River.

Yep, that's about 1 minute from my parents house.  Pretty crazy seeing those big clumsy birds up in the trees.

There's a pair of bald eagles that nested pretty close to there last year as well.
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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2009, 06:58:44 AM »
There is a rookerie in Ballard south of the railroad bridge that is quite a site also.
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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2009, 09:12:15 AM »
There is another along Pioneer ave. in Puyallup right across from the trout hatchery. Funny there is a Bald Eagle nest right there also and Eagles feed on Heron chicks.

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2009, 09:16:23 AM »
They nest like that at the Bottom of Peazley Canyon off Hwy 18

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2009, 10:18:07 AM »
Tree nesting is one reason their population levels are doing well despite all of the ground nest snarfing predators that humans help out by feeding catfood and other assorted garbage to.

It is pretty awesome seeing them land in a tree.  Scare the crap out of you though when they squawk and you didn't know it was right above you :yike:

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2009, 07:21:36 PM »
How about 50+ Blue Heron nests? It was quite the sight, even more so when they spooked and all took off at the same time. Saw this on a little walk near my house tonight.

looks like my old backyard... when they are hatching all the mature birds sound like some sort of prehistoric animal, crazy sounds

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2009, 07:23:57 PM »
Did you have your umbrella?

I wouldnt want to walk under there and then spook fifty poopers all at once!   :chuckle:

I have always known them as *censored*aquarts :chuckle:

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #18 on: March 31, 2009, 07:53:48 PM »
In ornithology class back in college we would go to the rookery up on lake cour d'alene. 

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #19 on: March 31, 2009, 08:48:19 PM »
I used to live in Tennessee and they are everywhere

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #20 on: March 31, 2009, 10:18:57 PM »
Just a couple here....  I thought they were Blue Heron, maybe not????  Went into a field in AK early for Moose and this is what we found, literally thousands of them, they all went at once and took twenty minutes to get attitude in these huge circles above us.  Totally cool..

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #21 on: March 31, 2009, 11:27:22 PM »
That's pretty cool.   8)
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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #22 on: March 31, 2009, 11:33:56 PM »
my first glance i thought it was a huge flock of geese

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2009, 08:17:37 AM »
I thought they were turkeys at first   :chuckle:

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #24 on: April 01, 2009, 09:04:09 AM »
Just a couple here....  I thought they were Blue Heron, maybe not????  Went into a field in AK early for Moose and this is what we found, literally thousands of them, they all went at once and took twenty minutes to get attitude in these huge circles above us.  Totally cool..


They are sandhill cranes

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #25 on: April 01, 2009, 11:25:40 AM »
how was the smell under all those nests? I've been in a nesting area for blue herons in the summertime, boy thats a smell I never need to encounter again

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #26 on: April 01, 2009, 04:57:28 PM »
Sandhills, atleast I know what they are now, all that I know is they make a hell of alot of racket when they all go up though, cackling the whole way up, different and deeper than geese, not much of a bird guy so thanks for the information on what type...

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #27 on: April 01, 2009, 05:25:59 PM »
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They are sandhill cranes

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #28 on: April 02, 2009, 08:43:10 PM »
Here are some of the nests by Moses Lake.
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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #29 on: April 04, 2009, 01:52:42 AM »
Never would have thought those big birds slept in trees, very cool

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #30 on: April 04, 2009, 01:59:45 AM »
Those Russian Olive trees must be strong to support all those nests and birds, cool pic.

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #31 on: February 05, 2011, 02:20:28 PM »
That is cool. Don't see that everyday! 

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Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
« Reply #32 on: February 07, 2011, 12:05:26 PM »
Some of their nest sites will have hundreds of dead young on the ground. Apparently they try to fly a little prematurely. I had several almost fall on me along the columbia one time.

Anybody else ever see that?

 


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