HERON

<P>It is not uncommon</P>

<P>on summer evenings</P>

<P>to see a heron</P>

<P>making its way</P>

<P>up from Seneca Lake</P>

<P>to one of the small</P>

<P>ponds on the ridge</P>

<P>where it nests</P>

<P>and sleeps.</P>

<P>But one day I was</P>

<P>picking blueberries</P>

<P>on the hill,</P>

<P>and in the sunny</P>

<P>blue July sky</P>

<P>were five Herons,</P>

<P>flying all together</P>

<P>at their</P>

<P>stately, deliberate pace.</P>

<P>Awesome!</P>

<P>*******************</P>
<P>Click Links Below</P><P> For Heron Item Pages.</P></FONT>



*HERON CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT*
****HERON PIN**** Bird Pins / Heron Jewelry
HERON ***LAPEL/TIE PIN***    Bird Lapel/Tie Pin
*HERON CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT*

$24.00
****HERON PIN**** Bird Pins / Heron Jewelry

$22.50
HERON ***LAPEL/TIE PIN*** Bird Lapel/Tie Pin

$20.50



This is the write-up that will come with the Heron Ornament:

"With the happy thoughtlessness of a summer's day's walk, we followed the path out of the forest to an earthen dam which was making a small pond at the foot of a greater marsh. There we saw a Great Blue Heron who, like a scholar disturbed at his carrel by a group of chatty students, unobtrusively rose from his work and left for a more secluded venue.

  • ORDER: Ciconiiformes
  • FAMILY: Ardeidae (herons,egrets, & bitterns)
  • GENUS & SPECIES: Ardea herodias
  • SIZE: About 4 feet tall. Lives 15 years.
  • GEOGRAPHY: North America
  • HABITAT: haunts marshes, lake margins, rivers & small streams.
  • NESTING: Platform of sticks in swamp trees-usually in colonies.
    3 - 4 dull bluish eggs
    Both parents share incubation and feeding.
  • FLIGHT: Measured wing-beats with legs straight back & neck tucked in an S-shape.
  • Fossil remains of herons & ibises have been found from 40 million yrs. ago."


    Copyright L.Proper


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