I can second Didi's observation. Late this afternoon, at approximately
5:00 p.m., there were as many as 34 herons on the nests at the Black
River Riparian Forest site (aka off Springbrook Trail) in Renton. They
may reuse these nests yet...

Carl Haynie
Sammamish, WA

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:16:53 EST
From: DIDIANSTET at aol.com
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Cc: chandtr at home.com
Subject: Great blue herons in Renton
Message-ID:

Saturday morning at about 10:30 am, four of us walked the Springbrook
Trail in Renton. It was a beautiful morning! On Wednesday morning, I
had observed the great blue herons congregating along the shoreline
and in trees near the rookery, as Carl Haynie reported here.

On Saturday morning, we observed about half the herons, one by one,
flying up to the rookery and sitting on or near the nests. It was
quite spectacular. By about 11:00 am about 15 herons were on or near
the nests, and the remaining 15 or so were in nearby trees further
down the trail. When we drove off about a half-hour later, none of
the herons were in the nests....

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Anyone have other observations on current great blue heron activity?
Any observations about the rookery in the East Duwamish Greenbelt
across from Kellogg Island, or the rookery in Bothell/Kenmore?

Didi Anstett