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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Washington State Dept. of Fish & Wildlife (click here)
Would you like to see Great Blue Herons? The WDFW site has really neat wildlife file video of Great Blue Herons nesting.(The site will open in a "new window". You can close the window by clicking on the "X" at the top right of your screen or closing the tab to return to this page.)
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