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["Randy Stanley" <randyst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is also a small Great Blue Heron rookery located on the South Fork of
the Powell River in Wise County Virginia to the west of US 23 where it
crosses the river.  On your way north on 23 if you look to the small knoll
on the left after crossing the river you can see the nests in the trees and
the herons in them.  They have been back for a couple of weeks now.
Randy Stanley
Big Stone Gap, Virginia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "1-A Bristol-Birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 7:01 PM
Subject: [bristol-birds] Heron Rookery at Saltville, VA


>
> I had a message from Helen Barbrow of Saltville
> reporting that the Great Blue Herons  are back at
> their nest on the North Holston River.  She says
> they were spotted a couple of weeks ago.
>
> The species nested at the same location in
> Smyth Co., VA last season.
>
> This is the second known nesting site of Great
> Blue Herons in Southwest Virginia.  The other
> rookery, located in Washington County along
> Government Road at Damascus, has been
> active since the breeding season of 1998.
> Tom Horsch reports that herons are again
> present at that site.
>
> The North Fork Holston nests were found on
> March 10, 2001 in a sycamore about 75
> feet above the river near the McCready's
> Gap area.  Helen Barbrow took Linda
> Hodgson to see it the next day.
>
> Great Blue Herons invaded the Upper Holston
> River watershed about a decade ago, first
> with the Clay Island rookery on the Holston
> River in Hawkins Co., TN and then moved
> into the South Fork Holston drainage.
>
> There are no nests known from the Watauga
> Rive drainage of the Upper Holston.
>
> Two nests  with 4 adults was found in
> mid- Apr 1996 below South Holston Dam
> near the river in Sullivan Co.
>
> Following the 1998 discovery at Damascus,
> another rookery with many nests was found
> near Darter's Store and U.S. 421 in Holston
> Valley, Sullivan Co., TN.  On Monday, Feb.
> 25, Tom Horsch and I found that rookery
> again occupied by Great Blues at their
> nests.
>
> Keep your eyes open as we continue to
> trace this invasion in the region.  Be sure
> and post your findings.
>
> Wallace Coffey
> Bristol, TN
>
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