The Great Blue Herons of Honeoye 



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them balance. When an old bird alighted at a nest where there were young, 

 the young would stretch up their heads and make a great variety of grunts 

 and squawks, but as the old one appeared to take no notice of them they 

 would soon subside. 



I saw sixteen birds at nests at one time and many others flying about. At 

 one nest a pair stood on each side facing each other with the young sticking 

 their heads up between them — unfortunately it was out of range of my camera. 



"THEIR GREAT WINGS FLAPPING SLOWLY" 



At another nest a male bird brought a stick to his sitting mate and she took it 

 from him and placed it on the nest. 



We went to this herony again June 5, 191 5, arriving there at 8 a.m. Before 

 going into the swamp I counted loi nests that I could see from the road. We 

 found the ferns and other tender plants all wilted down, having been cut by 

 frost a few nights before. The fallen logs were a great help in getting around 

 as the water was quite deep and there were many treacherous places where the 

 mud and water would let one in over his boot-tops. 



As on our other visit, the Herons were busy flying to and from the lake or 

 circling around the nests. A dead Heron was hanging by its head high up in a 



