Follow the Heron - A Visit to the Rookery
The back of the winter is broken And light lingers long by the door The seeds of the summer have spoken In gowans* that bloom on the shore By night and day we’ll sport and we’ll play And delight as the dawn dances over the bay Sleep blows the breath of the morning away And we follow the heron home Karine Polwart, Follow the Heron ** My friend invited me on a short adventure. "Come see the heron rookery," she said. Then she sent me a photo. How lucky am I to have such friends! Here is what we saw (it was overcast and we kept a distance): Tree #1 At least 5 Great Blue Herons at the nests and about 7 Black Vultures below. We talked a great deal about whether the Vultures are after eggs or baby birds. Apparently some years the vultures drive the herons from some of the trees. After some movement from both species we backed off. Not only is it illegal to interfere with nesting, we don't want to do anything to impact the heron nesting. We did discuss what could be done to mov