144 MICHIGAN BIRD LIFE. 
suitable places as far north as 
Port Huron, Owosso, Ionia and 
Grand Rapids, but north of 
this latitude it becomes in- 
frequent or unknown. Mr. 
Newell A. Eddy states that it 
has not been taken in Bay 
county so far as he knows. Dr. 
Dunham took a single specimen 
in Kalkaska county, May 2, 
1898, but says it is not common 
there. Kneeland records it for 
Keweenaw Point in his list of 
1859, and Major Boies reported 
a single one, seen on the St. 
Mary’s River (Hay Lake), in 
Chippewa county, but these are 
the only reports from the Upper 
Peninsula. 
The Green Heron enters the 
state from the south about the Fig. 35. Green Heron. 
first of May, the exact date From Baird, Brewer and Ridgway’s Water Birds of 
varying about a week either North America. (Little, Brown & Co.) 
way according to season and 
locality. Nesting begins before the middle of May, and from the fact 
that occupied nests are occasionally found in July it seems likely that a 
second brood is reared sometimes. 
It gets its common name of “Fly-up-the-creek” from its abundance 
along the wooded shores of our slow streams and the manner in which it 
Fig. 36. Green Heron. 
Head, showing occipital crest and naked lores. (Original.) 
will keep ahead of a boat, making short flights of 50 to 100 yards each 
time the boat gets too near, and after such a flight usually alighting in a 
tree or bush. Unlike most of our herons it does not seem to be at all social, 
and is never found feeding in flocks, but is seen singly or more frequently 
in pairs. I once saw five individuals along the shores of a muddy pond 
of a couple of acres, but this was exceptional. It is rather crepuscular 
in its habits, feeding and flying mostly at morning and evening, but fre- 
quently heard during moonlight nights, and often abroad all day during 
