As noted in yesterday’s post: Battling Birds – Part 1: Tree Swallows, I hiked into the Great Blue Heron Rookery. Until the bugs drive you away (the flies, not the mosquitoes), hanging out in the swamp is amazingly fun. The sights are fantastic.
Battling Birds: Part 2!
Loosely translated this heron is saying “get away from my woman”. This was one of the few nests out of 20+ which already had an incubating female. The others had bachelors waiting for ladies to migrate in north (see video … link for email subscribers).