Oh honey, you're the best stick-bringer ever

by Judi Dressler

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Oh honey, you're the best stick-bringer ever

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Judi Dressler

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This male Great Blue Heron flew in with a stick for his sweetie to put in the nest, and she was swooning over him, pointing her beak up to the sky, and generally putting on a show for him. It was nesting season, and the herons had set up house in a nest from the previous year, and were improving it, an annual ritual where the male brings sticks and the female finds the perfect place to put them in the nest.

From Cornell's website: "Male Great Blue Herons collect much of the nest material, gathering sticks from the ground and nearby shrubs and trees, and from unguarded and abandoned nests, and presenting them to the female. She weaves a platform and a saucer-shaped nest cup, lining it with pine needles, moss, reeds, dry grass, mangrove leaves, or small twigs. Nest building can take from 3 days up to 2 weeks; the finished nest can range from a simple platform measuring 20 inches across to more elaborate structures used over multiple years, reaching 4 feet across and nearly 3.5 feet deep. Ground-nesting herons use vegetation such as salt grass to form the nest."

Photo taken on March 9, 2018, in Lakewood, Colorado

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