13 hearty volunteers and Land Trust staff came out on a brisk Saturday at 9:30 to go into the heronry and do the annual counting and recording of nests.
Everybody introduced themselves and led us in a favorite "stretch." Good, because we will be doing a lot of this!
Lots of new faces and that is always a treat.
We got an orientation to the site and the materials we would be using.
Everyone got warm gloves and we headed in.
Trees that have had nests in the past have a metal, numbered tag on them with a piece of old flagging showing that they were counted last year. We will replace the flagging with new (pink) for this year and record a lot of data about the tree and nests in it.
New trees with nests get a new tag and similar data recording.
