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[va-richmond-general] Re: Heron

From: "Michael Shapiro" <sc.tanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:41:22 -0400

I saw one at a little catch basin behind one of the shopping malls in Short
Pump last year. I think it was behind the one where the Wal-Mart is.

Michael Shapiro


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kim Harrell" <flyingfish1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 11:22 PM
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Heron


> I watched one hunting in the little stormwater catch-basin by Borders
> Books on West Broad Street once. That same week I was walking across
> the parking lot at Virginia Center Commons at night, when a startled
> heron squawked and bolted out of the runoff pond there in the middle of
> the lot. Admirably adaptable.
>
> Kim Harrell
>
> On Wednesday, September 7, 2005, at 08:25 PM, tyler turpin wrote:
>
> > As long as there is some open water with prey items available in VA
> > some  Great Blue Herons will be around I do not know the temp level of
> > below (x) degrees for at least (x) days that makes them go away .
> > There are always at least 8 Great Blues reported in Rockbridge County
> > Christmas bird count. My grandparents on both sides of my family are
> > from there and we get the local paper which publishes the results each
> > year. I saw one in Buffalo Creek in Rockbridge County in January two
> > years ago near Murat, VA. Great Blue Herons have been thriving and
> > reclaming ground lost even 100 years ago. We must still be vigilant in
> > habitat protection. Many like lakes built in developments as long as
> > there is a non built on area or island people do not go on. The lake
> > at West Creek Office Park has a bunch that are pretty tolerant of
> > people. In the late 1990's or in the year 2000 Smithsonian Magazine
> > did a large article on how well Great Blue Herons are doing.
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Tyler Turpin
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Barbara Williamson <barbaraawmson@xxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sep 7, 2005 3:29 PM
> > To: va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Heron
> >
> > I was in Washington County, VA canoeing on the Middle Fork of the
> > Holston
> > river when I rounded a bend and there before us was a Great Blue.  He
> > flew into a tree on the bank and watched us paddle past.  I grew up
> > near
> > the Middle Fork near Abingdon - never seen a heron in that part of the
> > world before.
> >
> > BW
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