Re: [SBB] Heron and Egret Question PA Baylands

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They are very common at the Newby Island landfill in Milpitas also.

 

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Randy Little
Milpitas, CA

 

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From: Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]>

> Folks:
>
> Black-crowned Night-Herons are regular customers at the Palo Alto
> dump across from the Duck Pond. I guess that means they feed on human food.
>
> Bill
>
> At 03:29 PM 4/27/2007, [[email protected]] wrote:
> >Good afternoon all...
> >
> >I decided to take a quick run over to PA Baylands to collect some
> >Black-crowned Night Heron shells to show the difference in size
> >between Great Blue Heron shells for the Salute to Great Blue Heron
> >day tomorrow at Vasona....so while at the baylands I was watching
> >the Snowy Egrets, Black-crowned Night Herons and one Great Egret
> >when a Black-crowned chick caught my eye...it was making its way
> >down the palm tree on the cut off palm fronds stumps....I knew it
> >was not a good idea for this chick to be that far out of its
> >nest....when all of a sudden it fell to the ground (did you hear me
> >scream?).... I was just so upset... I went over to the Ranger's
> >office and the Ranger on call was just a doll...he came over and
> >made a rescue of the chick....but while I was getting the Ranger
> >another chick fell out of the nest....by the time I got back to the
> >palm tree I could see the Crows pecking at that bird, it had
> >died. The Ranger was telling me that when they go to rescue a chick
> >usually all the adult birds fly up from the nest (or the trees) and
> >more chicks could fall to the ground. The Ranger entered the area
> >by the palm trees and up went Snowys, the one Great Egret and some
> >Black-crowned Night Herons....luckily no other ch icks fell....The
> >ranger was telling me how aggressive the Snowy Egrets are.... and
> >that they will push other chicks out of the nests....
> >
> >The Ranger got the BCNH chick (about three weeks old) and while he
> >was taking him out of the net (and putting him in the container) the
> >chick regurgitated the contents of its stomach....amazing....there
> >was a hard bone (the size of a small rock, the Ranger thought it was
> >some type of fish bone) and then the heron brought up what we both
> >thought was the skin of a chicken (rather a large piece). Only
> >thing I could think of (and please help me here) was that the adult
> >BCNH got this from the one of the picnic areas where the bar-b-ques
> >would be ...someone may have dropped a piece of chicken and left it
> >and the heron picked it up. Would that be possible? I have seen
> >pictur es of rehabbers feeding cut up chick to GBHEs...not
> >successfully... Can anyone tell me if they have seen or know of
> >egrets or herons eating human food?
> >
> >Okay, I am glad that the chick will be going to the Wildlife Center
> >of Silicon Valley...There is another chick in the bush right in
> >front of the palm trees....photogrpahers told me that it had been
> >there for days and that the parent comes to feed it! Didn't know
> >that herons and egrets feed young out of the nests? Any ideas on this?
> >
> >Okie dokie...enjoy this beautiful weekend....
> >
> >Good birding and my best regards,
> >Linda Sullivan
> >
> >
> >
> >
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