During a brief visit to Westfield Pill this afternoon we noted that the heronry was starting to get into full swing. It is still early in the season, but we could see that birds were sitting and probably incubating at three nests out of four nests observed. The fourth was at the late nest-building stage. Hopefully there will be more pairs resident and breeding in several weeks time.
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| This bird was sitting low and tight, probably incubating |
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| Late stage nest-building, a small twig was delivered to the sitting bird |
If you know of any breeding herons it would be useful to make some counts this spring for the annual national heronry census. For more details here is the link Heronry Census