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Heron Colony--Alexander County



I was out at Riverbend Park (northern Catawba Co.) this afternoon looking
for some migrants.  There weren't many to be found.  I did, however, run
into a student from Lenoir-Rhyne College who is doing a study on Eastern Box
Turtles.  He said he comes to the park everyday to check on the turtles and
he asked what I thought about the heron colony. I said "What heron colony?!"
So he takes me to a fishing area at the park where you can see across the
river and sure enough behind some trees on the other shore is a stand of
tall pine trees with two Great Blue Heron nest in them.  There were several
adults near the nests, but I didn't have my scope, so I couldn't tell about
nestlings.  The trees are on private property, but the guy had been over
there and he said there were more nest that can't be seen from the park.  I
am going to try to find out who the property belongs to and see if I can get
a closer look to see how many nest are there.

Dwayne
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Dwayne Martin
Foothills Bird Club
Claremont, NC
dlmartin@twave.net
http://www.geocities.com/foothillsbirdclub/
http://www.geocities.com/ncxbill/