The Oologist. 



Vol. XXIII. No. 1|/ 



Albion, N. Y., Dec, 1906. 



Whole No. 233 



THE OOLOGIST, 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 

 OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXI- 

 DEEM Y. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, 



ALBION, N. Y. 



ERNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager. 



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ERNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager, 

 Chili, Monroe Co.. N. Y. 



The Home of the Great Blue Heron. 



We have had in the neighborhood 

 of Buffalo within a radius of 50 miles, 

 three heronries, one containing three 

 or four nests, which has since been 

 deserted, the location being too near 

 frequented highways, the other had 

 from twelve to fifteen nests, but the 



surrounding low country having been 

 drained, made the locality an unde- 

 sirable place for the Herons. 



Here their nests were placed in 

 high pines, since cut down. I un- 

 dertook to climb one of these, 75 feet 

 up a 4-foot through pine. When the 

 first limb was encountered, I had to 

 force my way through the heavy 

 needled twigs, 115 feet from the 

 ground, and was rewarded with two 

 fine eggs. The exertion was so great, 

 that I did not undertake another 

 climb. This was on May 1st, 1898 in 

 the Cherry Creek locality. The pre- 

 vious year the farmers had made a 

 raid on the young because of their de- 

 struction to the trout fry which were 

 planted in a small stream nearby and 

 shot all within reach and threw them 

 in a pile to rot. 



I have heard since that the Herons 

 have left this section. 



The third, now existing heronry, is 

 about 50 miles from Buffalo in Or- 

 leans county, and being afraid that a 

 similar fate might overtake it, con- 

 cluded to make several trips to it dur- 

 ing the breeding season. 



This locality is almost inaccessible. 

 The large swamp encircling it. will 

 not be drained for some years to 

 come. The surrounding farming pop- 

 ulation is waiting for the state au- 

 thorities to do it, and this being a 

 very expensive undertaking and the 

 state not directly benefitted by doing 

 so, may be a far off problem. 



The conditions are entirely differ- 

 ent from those of the two vacated 

 heronries. The trees are entirely high 

 old elms and ash. A few years ago 

 we saw one very large elm which had 

 eleven nests. This tree was blown 



