VA Birders:
A followup this evening on the Great Blue Heron rookery at Saltville, VA.
finds the nests in place and birds on the nest. The earlier report that the
sixteen nest were gone was in error.
Let's go birding....
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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From: "mayhorn" <mayhorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Birding Virginia" <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 11:14 AM
Subject: [va-bird] Saltville VA Rookery Gone
VA Birders,sixteen nest Great Blue Heron colony at Saltville is gone, the nests as well
I just received an e-mail from Helen Barbrow of Saltville that the entire
From what I have read Great Blues are sensitive to human or eagledisturbance, and that they will move the colony if they are disturbed,
to the mountainside above the road on the opposite side of the river from
In my post on May 14 I noted that I saw one bird carrying nesting material
former location.
The photos taken on the 14th. may be the last ones of the rookery at its
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Enjoy the birds, while they are still here.
Roger Mayhorn
Compton Mt
Buchanan County
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