Yesterday (Monday) at about 6 pm I watched 20 Great Blue Herons circling
over the rookery on Indian Fort Road in Trumansburg for several minutes.
They decided not to investigate further and moved on to the north
Annette Nadeau
Trumansburg
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Oh I forgot- We also saw a Great Blue Heron fly over at Long Pt yesterday
evening. Yay!
Donna Scott
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On Mar 19, 2018, at 8:36 PM, Dave Nutter
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Today’s sign of spring for me was a close trio of GREAT BLUE HERONS flying
Today’s sign of spring for me was a close trio of GREAT BLUE HERONS flying
north this morning above Floral Avenue. They have seemed very scarce to me this
winter, and these were my first in Ithaca.
- - Dave Nutter
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First of the year for us. Two dropped down onto the still frozen farm pond
behind us on South Hill. Expert flying as they dropped almost vertically in
the stiff NW wind. Not sure they would want to take off in this wind, in
spite of frozen water.
Toby
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While traversing Upper Buttermilk Park (muddy, icy), I was surprised to
find 2 GREAT BLUE HERON flying about the Lake Treman area together.
There is some open water there, and 11 Canada Geese were also present.
I assume the two birds were a pair that was checking out this area as a
possible
I took a quick walk this AM at 715 along north Wilson, listening to many
Black-capped Chickadees, American Robins, White-throated Sparrows, Red-winged
Blackbirds, Common Grackles, observing a Mallard on the trail (then in the
water), Canada Geese, a pair of Common Mergansers, and one