Subject: Everett Herons
Date: Mar 27 01:48:31 2002
From: Wayne C. Weber - contopus at shaw.ca


Tweeters,

Boy, that's really a PILE of herons! (Sorry, couldn't resist the
temptation.)

Wayne Weber
Kamloops, BC
contopus at shaw.ca


----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Schulz <eschulz at gte.net>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: Everett Herons (was Kiwanis Herons)


> Sunday I counted 91 GBH mostly on pilings north of Jetty
> Island and south of Steamboat Slough in the Snohomish River
> estuary. What seemed unusual is that most were on their own
> piling, cormorant-style, rather than standing on log rafts or
> log booms. Parts of the area populated by pilings had a heron
> on each piling! This is the largest grouping of GBH I have
> ever seen here. It is fascinating how their behavior changes
> so much with the season.
>
> Ed Schulz
> Everett, WA
>