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YC Night Heron Rookery at Charleston's Battery Park



I was surprised to discover that at least three dozen Yellow-crowned Night
Herons are nesting and raising young in as heavily-peopled a place as
Charleston's Battery Park.  The juveniles are actively foraging on the
ground amid the natives, tourists, pigeons, and house sparrows while the
adults usually hang about above it all in the Live Oak nests.

How long has this been going on?  Is this the first season?  Is it unusual
for Y-c Night Herons to rook in such a busy place?

7;^)
Tom "two legs at a time" Lorenzin
Davidson (Lake Norman), NC
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