Tweeters,

I am sending this for someone else in hopes that someone out there can help
her.

Nancy Ladenberger
Kingston, WA


Dear Tweeters all,

I'm writing an article on herons for our neighborhood "Sawdust Gazette"
newsletter -- deadline this week! -- and wondered if anyone in your
network knows how many big heron nesting colonies we still have in Puget
Sound? Nancy has already offered wonderful advice, and asked me to
contact Tweeters -- great name!

Our heron nesting site, near here, keeps growing (115 nests this year, up
from 56 in 1995), and I wonder if herons just shift nesting sites,
naturally, when the environment changes, every decade or so?

Is 115 a great number of nests? Or about normal for any heronry? Our
herons here scatter after nesting (mid-August), then reappear, in even
greater numbers, every spring.

I just need to know how our heronry fits into the big heron picture in
Puget Sound. Help, and thanks in advance,

Joan Hockaday
("Birdie Madison" pen name),

15576 Washington Avenue NE
Bainbridge Island, Washington 98110

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hockaday at bainbridge.net
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