Speaking of heron rookeries or "heronries" ...
Yesterday I happened to go by the small heronry on the Willamette River just
northwest of Albany along Springhill Drive, which has been active in the past
several years.
There are still at least five nests in the cottonwoods on the north bank of the
river, but I didn't see any herons around them. There is almost no safe place
to pull off the road and view the nests, and traffic moves fast on that
stretch. So I might have missed herons if they were hunkered down and brooding
in the nests. But I wonder if that heronry has been abandoned, perhaps due to
Bald Eagles taking up residence in the vicinity.
Joel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Garrard" <springazure1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "OBOL" <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "birding" <birding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Peter Greenberg" <nrgwise.lighting@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:05:46 AM
Subject: [midvalleybirds] GBH rookery Brooklake I-5 exit 263
Hi all, following Peter's tip from last week, I took the 263 exit from I-5
on my way north from Corvallis to Portland yesterday. Sadly, I had
forgotten that I was going to do this, so I didn't have my good binoculars
or my spotting scope, just my emergency car binoculars.
From the wide shoulder east off the exit, I was able to scan the largefield to the south of Brooklake. Wow! There were at least 25 GBH in the