Heronry--BigWoods Rd!!

["Rob G" <thrush@hotmail.com>]

  Haven't seen anyone report this yet and Sun. birders may be interested: A 
large group on Cindy Fox's WildBird Center Sat.walk
were treated to an active heronry (4-5 nests, hopefully more by next 
weekend) easily seen from the Big Woods Bridge area:

  if turning onto Big Woods from Jack Bennett, park and walk to left side of 
road before actual bridge area; look through trees to the
large pond at back where large beaver dam resides(find an angle that gives 
good view) I believe this is east(?) side of road; look to bare trees beyond 
pond, right of beaver dam, and high up; from best angle nests are visible 
with naked eye, but scope/binocs of course preferred.
  As far as I know this is a first for Big Woods Rd.

  Meanwhile, UNC's Barred Owls have yet to go to nest, still sleeping away 
the days in the quad holly trees - it's getting late.

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**Rob Gluck         Chapel Hill        thrush@hotmail.com

   "If the human brain was so simple that we could understand
    it, then we would be so simple that we couldn't."

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