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Herons
« on: February 02, 2011, 09:14:15 PM »
Took my son on his first outing today ( he's 8 days old) and headed down to the greenbank farms.  There is a pond behind the farm building's where the winery, and coffee shop is.  As we were shopping I noticed a bunch of honkers fly over.  We decided to go look at them close up.  In the little pond that they landed there was eleven great blue herons.  I have never seen so many in such a small place.  Are they nesting up, or migrating?? Just wondering, wish I had my camera for this event, hopefully next time I can get a pic of such odd sight.  :dunno:
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Re: Herons
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2011, 09:18:36 PM »
Somebody must have just stocked the pond with trout  :chuckle:
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Re: Herons
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2011, 09:19:56 PM »
Somebody must have just stocked the pond with trout  :chuckle:
:chuckle: :chuckle: The pond is barely big enough to support a breeding pair of mallards through a weekend.  Maybe the tourists have bee feeding the herons.  :dunno:
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Re: Herons
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2011, 04:21:12 AM »
Seth, check out this thread on herons.... Really neat.... http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,23965.0.html
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Re: Herons
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2011, 06:28:49 AM »
They like gold fish to. I lost 14 to date. POOP HEADS
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Re: Herons
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2011, 07:05:52 AM »
I think they tell all of there buddies when they find the honey hole.  They keep landing in my buddies development and cleaning out his coy pond.  They have cost him several hundred dollars.  Now he has run electrical wire all around and over the top of his pond.
Down around Vancouver, WA off of lower river road you can see the colonies of heron nests.  Pretty cool watching them land in all the trees.  There are several hundred nests.
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Re: Herons
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2011, 10:37:54 AM »
We have had a 4-5 on our ponds at a time before. They are hard on stocked ponds for sure :bash: We have not stocked ours in years, because of those Ba#*^#*#
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Re: Herons
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2011, 11:27:21 AM »
Ponds need deep water so that the herons cannot stand on the bottom to hunt, though I have seen them working kelp beds walking from kelp bulb to kelp bulb looking for fish and shrimp.

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Re: Herons
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2011, 04:44:59 PM »
thanks for the link, and all the info.  They appear to be locusts, glad I dont have any coy ponds that they can raid.
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Re: Herons
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2011, 05:33:26 PM »
I'm not sure what time of year it is, but you can see them hanging out up in the trees right at Ballard Locks. Before that I had no idea they could even land in a tree.. I guess I hadn't just paid much attention because I saw several land in trees hunting this year.
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Re: Herons
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2011, 08:40:11 AM »
I think they tell all of there buddies when they find the honey hole.  They keep landing in my buddies development and cleaning out his coy pond.  They have cost him several hundred dollars.  Now he has run electrical wire all around and over the top of his pond.
Down around Vancouver, WA off of lower river road you can see the colonies of heron nests.  Pretty cool watching them land in all the trees.  There are several hundred nests.

They also nest in the trees near highway 20 on your way to Anacortes, between the Swin Casino and the Jerry Smith

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Re: Herons
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2011, 07:57:53 AM »
I think they tell all of there buddies when they find the honey hole.  

Kinda like us huh?  One of us opens our mouth about a good fishing hole and the next day there's 30 people there  :bash:
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