. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. 2^irb=1tore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies. Vol. XIX March—April, 1917 No. 2 The Great Blue Herons of Honeoye By VERDI BURTCH With photographs by the author DOWN through a deep narrow valley in the finger-lake region of western New York, winds the inlet of Honeoye Lake. About two and one half miles from the lake the valley begins to broaden out and the inlet over- flows in springtime on the alluvium and clay beds that it has been bringing in and depositing during the centuries to
. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. 2^irb=1tore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies. Vol. XIX March—April, 1917 No. 2 The Great Blue Herons of Honeoye By VERDI BURTCH With photographs by the author DOWN through a deep narrow valley in the finger-lake region of western New York, winds the inlet of Honeoye Lake. About two and one half miles from the lake the valley begins to broaden out and the inlet over- flows in springtime on the alluvium and clay beds that it has been bringing in and depositing during the centuries to form an oozy, treacherous swamp. This swamp is covered with a forest of ash, elm, and maple trees, and is full of fallen logs in various stages of decay. Here the valley is 800 feet above the sea-level and the wooded hills are very steep and rise 1300 feet to 1400 feet above the valley on either side. In January, 1914, our game-protector told me of the large nests that he had seen in this swamp, and from his description I at once knew that they were the nests of the Great Blue Heron. May 24, 1914, a charming automobile ride of twenty-four miles over and through the glaciated hills brought us to the upper end of the swamp. Long before we were there we could see the nests of the Herons high up in the dead tops of the ash trees which were above the other trees in the forest. It did not take us long to get into the midst of them, where the great birds were flying to and fro or were perched on or above the nests. They were not nearly so wild as the Lake Lamoka Herons which we visited the year before, for these left the vicinity of the nests as soon as we came among them and after a long time came scouting around only to leave again as soon as they glimpsed us. These Honeoye birds acted more like our old Potter Swamp birds of twenty years ago, and who knows but that they may be direct descendants of the Potter Swamp birds, their ancestors having moved to Honeoye after Potter Swamp
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