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Title: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
Post by: actionshooter 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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Post by: robodad on March 29, 2009, 09:46:06 PM: How the hell do those clumsy *censored*s land in a tree ?? (https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10689/22_yikes.gif)
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on March 29, 2009, 09:46:24 PM: Holly cow.
Title: Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
Post by: actionshooter on March 29, 2009, 09:52:05 PM: Quote from: robodad on March 29, 2009, 09:46:06 PM
How the hell do those clumsy *censored*s land in a tree ?? (https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10689/22_yikes.gif)

it didn't look easy, thats for sure :chuckle:
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Post by: walt 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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Post by: cascademountainhunter on March 29, 2009, 11:10:04 PM: woh thats cool
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Post by: ICEMAN 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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Post by: boneaddict 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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Post by: WAcoyotehunter 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.
Title: Re: Ever seen a Blue Heron Nest?
Post by: actionshooter on March 30, 2009, 01:53:17 PM: Quote from: boneaddict 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.

This one closes in 2 days, from what I heard they weren't there a week ago.
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Post by: klickriverchromer 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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Post by: wazzuhunter on March 31, 2009, 02:04:08 AM: Quote
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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Post by: Track-er 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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Post by: WAPITIHUNTER 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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Post by: Gobble 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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Post by: lokidog 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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Post by: firecrotch on March 31, 2009, 07:21:36 PM: Quote from: actionshooter 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.

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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Post by: dirty.dan4 on March 31, 2009, 07:23:57 PM: Quote from: ICEMAN 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:

I have always known them as *censored*aquarts :chuckle:
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Post by: popeshawnpaul 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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Post by: pjb3 on March 31, 2009, 08:48:19 PM: I used to live in Tennessee and they are everywhere
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Post by: cohoho 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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Post by: Pathfinder101 on March 31, 2009, 11:27:22 PM: That's pretty cool. 8)
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Post by: firecrotch on March 31, 2009, 11:33:56 PM: my first glance i thought it was a huge flock of geese
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Post by: actionshooter on April 01, 2009, 08:17:37 AM: I thought they were turkeys at first :chuckle:
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Post by: pjb3 on April 01, 2009, 09:04:09 AM: Quote from: cohoho 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..

They are sandhill cranes
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Post by: road.kill 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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Post by: cohoho 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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Post by: wazzuhunter on April 01, 2009, 05:25:59 PM: Quote
They are sandhill cranes

Yup.
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Post by: 509er on April 02, 2009, 08:43:10 PM: Here are some of the nests by Moses Lake.
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Post by: jroc92980 on April 04, 2009, 01:52:42 AM: Never would have thought those big birds slept in trees, very cool
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Post by: callonetta 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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Post by: JakeM on February 05, 2011, 02:20:28 PM: That is cool. Don't see that everyday!
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Post by: BLUEBULLS 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?