Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?

[lokidog]

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

[firecrotch]

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

[dirty.dan4]

Did you have your umbrella?

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

I have always known them as *censored*aquarts

[popeshawnpaul]

In ornithology class back in college we would go to the rookery up on lake cour d'alene. 

[pjb3]

I used to live in Tennessee and they are everywhere

[cohoho]

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..

[Pathfinder101]

That's pretty cool.   

[firecrotch]

my first glance i thought it was a huge flock of geese

[actionshooter]

I thought they were turkeys at first   

[pjb3]

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

[road.kill]

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

[cohoho]

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...

[wazzuhunter]

They are sandhill cranes

Yup.

[509er]

Here are some of the nests by Moses Lake.

[jroc92980]

Never would have thought those big birds slept in trees, very cool