The great blue heron rookery is easily visible now in North Mississippi Regional Park. I had to give a program there on Saturday afternoon and the nest building birds were a treat to watch. The trees haven’t leafed out yet and so you can make out which nests are still under construction and which already contained incubating females.
I was very interested to note a great egret perched among the great blue herons (wasn’t able to digiscope a photo)–will this colony diversify to other species? Speaking of which, not everyone is happy to have a heron rookery in their neighborhood. There’s a news story from Kentucky of some residents who have gone so far as to cut down trees to keep nesting black-crowned night-herons from nesting over their homes.
Heron stench? Could be worse. Could be flamingos.
How cool to be able to see that! What a great opportunity for getting people interested in birds.
Beautiful!I commonly have GBH’s @ my pond, but i’ve never been able to see where & how they nest. Now i will look harder, and higher! And whyever would anyone Not want Night-herons nesting over their house? I’d love it!