[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Yellow-crowned Night Herons
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Yellow-crowned Night Herons
- From: Norman Budnitz <nbudnitz@duke.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 09:36:14 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
I first found Yellow-crowned Night Herons nesting along New Hope Creek
(River?) back in the mid-1970s, when I was working on an Environmental
Impact Statement for the (new) Jordan Lake and Dam Project (NC). I
actually found the nest at least one of the years that I was censusing, and
saw young birds on many occasions.
This was before any "wildlife impoundments" had been built, and New Hope
Creek was still really just a tongue of coastal plain river bottom habitat
sticking up into the piedmont. Quite beautiful, in it's
way. Mosquito-laden. Silt deposits from intermittent floods. But
Prothonotarys and Redstarts galore. And those Yellow-crowneds. Glad they
are still around.
Norm
***********************************************************
Norman Budnitz, nbudnitz@duke.edu
919-684-3592 (day), 919-383-0553 (eve), 919-660-7293 (fax)
(work) Biology Dept, Duke Univ, Box 90338, Durham NC 27708
(home) 4115 Garrett Drive, Durham NC 27705
PROGRESS: the victory of laughter over dogma.
(Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas)