{"id":2692,"date":"2017-06-05T22:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T02:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2017-06-05T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T02:05:22","slug":"hnpnc-outing-to-laurie-reeds-heronry-may-28-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/hnpnc-outing-to-laurie-reeds-heronry-may-28-2017","title":{"rendered":"HNPNC outing to Laurie Reed\u2019s Heronry, May 28, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We had a wonderful outing to the heronry between Speyside and Campbellville. On the way, I saw a <strong>Black-billed Cuckoo<\/strong> flying across the road. Sadly, we could not stop quickly enough for everyone to get a good look at this bird.<br \/>\nWe went on to Laurie and Judith Reed\u2019s property and made ourselves at home on their barn balcony, overlooking the hundred-acre swamp. There were 17 active <strong>Great Blue Heron<\/strong> nests, most with fuzzy young and one adult tending the 2-4 babies. We saw a swan on an old beaver nest. Closer views with a scope revealed a pair of <strong>Trumpeter Swans<\/strong> on this nest, one with number <strong>J57<\/strong> on its yellow wing band. A <strong>Common Gallinule<\/strong> was seen preening, and a second bird seen soon after. Later, another pair of these quite rare \u201ccommon\u201d birds was seen. We also saw two <strong>Pied-billed Grebes<\/strong> and heard their strange call. Tanya was excited to see a <strong>Black-billed Cuckoo<\/strong>, but only momentarily before it hid in a shrubby tree. It called on and off the whole time we were there. Several <strong>Eastern Phoebes<\/strong> were flying about and collecting insects, and must have had a nest nearby. <strong>Cedar Waxwings<\/strong>, <strong>Baltimore Oriole<\/strong>, and a lone <strong>Willow Flycatcher<\/strong>, singing its \u201cfitz-bew\u201d call were also observed, along with <strong>Yellow Warblers<\/strong> and <strong>Gray Catbirds<\/strong>. I spotted a <strong>Snapping Turtle<\/strong> having a face-off with a much smaller <strong>Painted Turtle<\/strong>. A count of all the turtles revealed 29 painted and two snappers sunning on logs. <strong>Turkey Vultures<\/strong> soared over, an <strong>Eastern Kingbird<\/strong> posed on a stick and <strong>Red-winged Blackbirds<\/strong> feuded for prime territories. A few <strong>Tree Swallows<\/strong> seemed to be nesting in the swamp with the herons. Although only five club members came out of this event, it was a great way to spend a nice sunny afternoon. Many thanks to Laurie and Judith for their hospitality, and for maintaining this great habitat.<\/p>\n<p>[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=&#8221;16&#8243; gal_title=&#8221;Speyside Heronry&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a wonderful outing to the heronry between Speyside and Campbellville. On the way, I saw a Black-billed Cuckoo flying across the road. Sadly, we could not stop quickly enough for everyone to get a good look at this bird. We went on to Laurie and Judith Reed\u2019s property and made ourselves at home &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/hnpnc-outing-to-laurie-reeds-heronry-may-28-2017\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HNPNC outing to Laurie Reed\u2019s Heronry, May 28, 2017<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reid-author","category-birding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gne2-Hq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2694,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}