{"id":13285,"date":"2013-05-30T20:51:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T01:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=13285"},"modified":"2013-05-30T20:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T01:51:39","slug":"great-blue-heron-chicks-ready-to-fledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=13285","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron Chicks Ready to Fledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-009-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13287\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-000-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-000-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-000-480-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>SouthCoast Sippican Great Heron Rookery<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They&#8217;re big, they&#8217;re noisy, they&#8217;re demanding; so, it&#8217;s probably a good thing they&#8217;re also cuddly cute.\u00c2\u00a0 Great Blue Heron chicks in the SouthCoast Sippican rookery seem ready to fledge &#8230; not a moment too soon for their weary parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-March-24-2013-GBH-RETURN.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13298\" title=\"post March 24 2013 GBH RETURN 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-March-24-2013-GBH-RETURN-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-March-24-2013-GBH-RETURN-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-March-24-2013-GBH-RETURN-480-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>First Great Blue Heron Returned to Rookery on 24 March<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On the morning of March 24th, with the ground still topped with a layer of ice and snow, the first Great Blue Heron returned to the\u00c2\u00a0SouthCoast Sippican\u00c2\u00a0rookery, occupying one of the four existing nests on the shore of\u00c2\u00a0Washburn pond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-009-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13291\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-009-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-009-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-009-480-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Great Blue Heron with Two Large, Healthy Chicks<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today,<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> two months and a few days later, that same Great Blue Heron guards two large and healthy chicks that seem on the verge of fledging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-008-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13289\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-008-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-008-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-008-480-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Two Great Blue Heron Chicks Ready to Fledge<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the next tree over, another Great Blue Heron sits with another pair of huge chicks.\u00c2\u00a0 Two additional Great Blue Heron nests stand on nearby trees with chicks not yet at this stage of development.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-ospreys-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13303\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-ospreys-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-ospreys-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/post-chicks-ospreys-001-480-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Ospreys Hold Stolen Great Blue Heron Nest<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the other direction, an osprey pair hold a nest that they took from Great Blue Herons last Spring and to which they have returned this Spring to nest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SouthCoast Sippican Great Heron Rookery They&#8217;re big, they&#8217;re noisy, they&#8217;re demanding; so, it&#8217;s probably a good thing they&#8217;re also cuddly cute.\u00c2\u00a0 Great Blue Heron chicks in the SouthCoast Sippican rookery seem ready to fledge &#8230; not a moment too soon for their weary parents. 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