Haha it's ok, gave me a chance to admire the Whaler being towed around on the road
Just get some fresh sandlance and you got yourself a romantic candle lit anchovy cantaloupe salad by the beach for your swimmer lady.
Bald eagles are known to feed on great blue herons. Eagles can really decimate heron rookeries.
One weird thing I’ve seen is at the Black River Riparian area. There was a big bald eagle nest perched next to the heron rookery. I heard stories about the damage the eagles put on their neighboring heron chicks. Years ago a big storm came through and destroyed the eagle nest and tree it was build upon. That same year the herons moved on and I don’t think they’ve returned, at least in numbers. The cottonwoods still remain put the major eagle threat is gone. Why did the herons abandoned site? There is controversial land development behind the rookery but that was going on before the herons fled the scene. Anyways the following year I saw the Marymoor dog park cottonwoods get established with brand new heron nests. I’ve always imagined that some of those Black River herons set up shop over there as the timing was too perfect.
At least it's not a cocoanut
There is, or was, a heron rookery right on campus at UW. I've witnessed the havoc bald eagles can wreak on heron nests. The ground beneath is littered with feathers bones and dead chicks at times. The adults make no effort to defend the nests. The evoliutionary theory around the origin of rookery nesting has to do with the ability to tolerate losses to the population, while lowering the chance that any one nesting pair will lose all of their young every year.
Can I have my orange back that you stole, I’m starving here on the beach and that was my last bit of food. You can keep the egg shell
Hey that’s mine too! My last doobster and my lass cutie dangHit four beaches today early before the weather set in. No fishing involved. Lots of beach glass found.
Anyone lose their drawers or doobie in MA 10?
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Yup!
