I love herons, those big (and sometimes small) dino-birds that make up the Ardeidae family of avians. There are 64 species in this family, and a few of them occur and breed in (what's left) of our local wetlands. I posted about the great and snowy egrets colony at Google and the former colony of black-crowned night herons at a local school, but the really amazing rookeries are the ones with these big fellas:
Great blue heron, Ardea herodias (GBHE) in Los Gatos, CA. See what I mean by dino-bird?
I don't have any pictures of their nests, but they create huge nests of sticks and grass and other vegetation high up away from ground predators. These nests can get to be over a meter wide and a meter deep with repeated use.
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When I used to volunteer at the wildlife rehabilitation center, we had goggles and full-face visors to protect us from those dagger-like beaks that all herons posses.
You do not want this coming at your face
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