TWO HERONS 79 
being so retarded that, although it was June 13th, 
they were as yet only in blossom.* The compara- 
tive absence of foliage permitted one to have a far 
better view of what was going on above than if 
the trees had been thickly leaved, and on entering 
88. Five Herons’ nests in swamp maple, at an average height of seventy 
feet. The upper right-hand nest with young shown in Nos. 41 and 42. 
the rookery our attention was at once attracted by 
the nearly grown Herons, who, old enough to leave 
the nest, had climbed out on the adjoining limbs. 
There, silhouetted against the sky, they crouched in 
family groups of two, three, and four.* 
Other broods, inhabitants of more thickly leaved 
