{"id":12458,"date":"2013-03-24T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=12458"},"modified":"2013-03-24T17:03:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:03:30","slug":"great-blue-heron-returns-to-marion-rookery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=12458","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron Returns to Marion Rookery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gbh-return-003-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12462\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gbh-return-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gbh-return-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gbh-return-003-480-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) Returns<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Sunday morning, March 24th,\u00c2\u00a0the first\u00c2\u00a0Great Blue Heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>) returned to the SouthCoast rookery in Marion, Massachusetts.\u00c2\u00a0 This lone Great Blue Heron stood tall in its nest and seemed focused on the horizon, as if waiting for its mate and others to arrive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gbh-return-002-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12460\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gbh-return-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gbh-return-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gbh-return-002-480-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Empty Great Blue Heron Nest @\u00c2\u00a0Marion Rookery<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are four heron nests directly on the shoreline of this Marion pond and several others in trees tucked away in the surrounding wetlands.\u00c2\u00a0 All of these other nests remained\u00c2\u00a0vacant this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=10113\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12464\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/r004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/r004.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/r004-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=10113\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Rebuiling Great Blue Heron Nest, April 2012<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year we documented four pairs of Great Blue Herons on these pond-side trees\u00c2\u00a0rebuilding and buttressing their nests during the first week of April.\u00c2\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=10113\" target=\"_blank\">Nest Building at the Great Blue Heron Rookery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) Returns On Sunday morning, March 24th,\u00c2\u00a0the first\u00c2\u00a0Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) returned to the SouthCoast rookery in Marion, Massachusetts.\u00c2\u00a0 This lone Great Blue Heron stood tall in its nest and seemed focused on the horizon, as if waiting for its mate and others to arrive. 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