United States great blue herons fledging

This video is called Great Blue Herons, Camera host Cornell Lab, beautiful birds,they are courting,4/9/13.

From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in the USA:

Heron Fledging Has Begun

The first young heron took flight from the nest tree in Sapsucker Woods yesterday just after noon. The fledgling earned the nickname “Uno” from the hundreds of chatters who witnessed the flight on the new Heron Cam 3. Enter our contest to see if you can guess when the final heron will fledge–the winner will be announced on the Bird Cams Facebook page and will receive a 5″ x 7″ print featuring one of the nestling herons!

While you’re waiting for the last nestling to fledge, check out the growing nestlings on the two Osprey cams (Dunrovin and Hellgate). The nests are only about 10 miles apart from one another in western Montana, but the Dunrovin nestlings are about 3 weeks older and nearing fledging themselves. Both sets of parents are excellent fishers, provisioning the young with multiple fish a day, and this year is shaping up to be a banner year for the Ospreys.

We’ll continue to post updates on the Bird Cams Facebook page and on twitter at @birdcams. Your continued support helps us keep the cams streaming–please donate today and receive a complimentary limited edition Bird Cams notepad with photos of the hawks and herons as a thank you from the Cornell Lab. Thank you for watching!

Sincerely,

Charles Eldermire
Bird Cams Project Leader

Victoria Campbell
Bird Cams Communication Specialist

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26 thoughts on “United States great blue herons fledging”

Reblogged this on winterdominatrix and commented:
my other life..and totem.

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petrel41 on July 12, 2013 at 8:57 am said:

Thank you for reblogging!

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thanks for the post rose!

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petrel41 on July 12, 2013 at 8:55 am said:

Thanks for your kind comment, Sharmishtha Basu!

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Isn’t this fantastic! Thank you for posting this, and also for linking back to my 3 fledgling posts. Best Babsje

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petrel41 on July 12, 2013 at 12:22 pm said:

My pleasure 🙂 All the best to you, your blog and the herons!

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- babsje on July 12, 2013 at 12:37 pm said:
  
  Thank you! I have just reblogged this. It’s my first-ever reblog. 🙂
  
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  - petrel41 on July 12, 2013 at 1:21 pm said:
    
    Thank you so much for this!
    
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    - babsje on July 12, 2013 at 8:00 pm said:
      
      You’re welcome, it’s a pleasure to share herons!
      
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      - petrel41 on July 12, 2013 at 8:21 pm said:
        
        There is more about herons on this blog; if you use “heron” as a search term.
        
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        babsje on July 13, 2013 at 2:28 am said:
        
        Thanks for the helpful hint, will have to give that a try. Best, Babsje
        
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        petrel41 on July 13, 2013 at 6:20 am said:
        
        🙂
        
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Reblogged this on Babsje Heron and commented:
It is so exciting to see the Cornell herons fledging already! As for the herons nesting here, I’m off to check on them today, fingers crossed that the extreme heat this past week wasn’t too hard on the two nestlings. In the meantime, in this earlier post is another link to that heron cam that Petrel41 had posted: http://wp.me/p3sJPz-2L

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great to have this in-nest view.

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petrel41 on July 12, 2013 at 2:24 pm said:

Yes. I hope this will be a succesfull nest next year as well.

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I’ve been seeing so many herons on the Chattahoochee river lately. At least 10 every time I take the kayaks out. They are amazing creatures.

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petrel41 on July 12, 2013 at 3:15 pm said:

Yes, they are beautiful. Are they all great blue herons, or also other heron species?

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- vagabondvirginia on July 12, 2013 at 3:17 pm said:
  
  Yes, they are Great Blue Herons. I didn’t even know we had them here until this year.
  
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  - petrel41 on July 12, 2013 at 3:18 pm said:
    
    I hope that you will still see them many times 🙂
    
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