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[jhjimbo]

Three hens

[jhjimbo]

Hens

[jhjimbo]

Hens and chicks

[MattM37]

Nice pics, thanks for posting them. Last month I came across a whole community of nesting great blue herons, in all the dead trees in and around a big beaver pond. (Do you still call that a "rookery" if they're not crows or ravens?). Never seen that before. I counted six different nests with chicks, three chicks in each nest (so far as I could see, anyway). They were about the size of those turkey poults, longer-necked of course, and still wearing a lot of baby-fuzz. I could see another pond farther up the valley, with more dead trees and nests, but that one was across the state-land line. I had not known that herons made those big nesting communities.

[Gary Devine]

Hey Jimbo, I am a little shocked to see the young poult out in the open like that. The speed of a Peregrine Falcon, a Redtail, a goshawk or a Bald Eagle would be like taking fish in a barrel. ? ?
Nice pics.

[jhjimbo]

Hey Jimbo, I am a little shocked to see the young poult out in the open like that. The speed of a Peregrine Falcon, a Redtail, a goshawk or a Bald Eagle would be like taking fish in a barrel. ? ?
Nice pics.

they are on a walking/jogging path and are probably picking up tiny specs of gravel.

[Treestand]

I gave up turkey Hunting No Fun anymore, The Coyotes and Hawks get them, they make good Eagle Food.

[pineywoods]

I love watching mama turkeys and their young ones. I once saw a hen fly directly at a Coopers hawk as her poults fled into the woods at the edge of the field. The hawk turned and she flew in pursuit for nearly a hundred yards.

[pineywoods]

I gave up turkey Hunting No Fun anymore, The Coyotes and Hawks get them, they make good Eagle Food.

It gets harder and harder for me to get up early enough for gobbling time. I still need my sleep.