Eagles have also decimated the heron colony on Bainbridge Island.
Gene Bullock
Kitsap Audubon
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From: "Ed Swan" <edswan at centurytel.net>
To: "Diane Yorgason-Quinn" <Avosetta at hotmail.com>;
<Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Interesting Osprey Colony


>I wonder if the herons are nesting with the Ospreys in order to get the
>benefit of the Ospreys protecting their nests from Bald Eagles. Bald
>Eagles have destroyed every heron colony and 90% of single nest or two or
>three nest groupingq of herons on Vashon and Maury Island over the last
>decade.
>
> Ed Swan
> Vashon Island
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