In your account of your error with regard to the two species of herons, you incidentally gave me great entertainment in your description of the heronry at Cressi-hall; which is a curiosity I could never manage to see.
Pray send me word in your next what sort of tree it is that contains such a quantity of herons' nests; and whether the heronry consists of a whole grove or wood, or only of a few trees.
In the Falkland Islands, where Captain Abbott discovered a heronry (cf.
Everywhere beneath the heronry there is an ancient and fish-like smell; and this by the warm days of summer becomes almost unbearable.
The herons have just returned to the heronry after an absence of many months.
But to this we must dissent; and if a trout stream and a heronry are to flourish in the same neighbourhood, the former must be covered in with netting, especially during the spawning season.
There is a heronry in the wood, and pigeons build in the larches.
There is still a heronry at Dawyck, but not, I think, in an "Orch-yard.
Pray send me word in your next what sort of tree it is that contains such a quantity of herons' nests, and whether the heronry consists of a whole grove of wood, or only of a few trees.
In your account of your error with regard to the two species of herons, you incidentally gave me great entertainment in your description of the heronry at Cressi Hall, which is a curiosity I never could manage to see.
In Eilean a Chuillin, on the north side, a heronry is said to have been destroyed by golden eagles from the rocks on Beinn Aridh Charr, one of the accused being poisoned in consequence.
The Heronry had changed its name, if not formally, yet in familiar parlance, throughout all the neighbourhood, and was called the Vernonry even by people who did not know why.
Hester cast a long look all round from east to west, taking in the breadth of the Common glistening in the morning dew, the dark roofs of the Heronry against the trees, the glittering vanes and windows of the town on the other side.
Even the little adventure with the stranger at the Heronry enhanced this.
The only element of comfort which Hester found at this dark period of her life was in the other side of the Heronry in the two despised households, which the Miss Vernon-Ridgways and Mr. Mildmay Vernon declared to be "not of our class.
Next an open country which can be ridden over--over which herons are in the constant habit of passing to and from their heronry on their fishing excursions, or making their "passage.
The line herons take over a tract of country on their way to and from the heronry when procuring food in the breeding season.
For heron-hawking a well-stocked heronry is in the first place necessary.
In Guernsey itself, however, it is more likely that a few Herons formerly bred, and that there was once a small Heronry in the Vale.
It seems to me also possible that the family derived their name from being the proprietors of the only Heronry in Guernsey.
The first few days of my visit at the Heronry passed like a dream.
She was only in town for a short time, and hoped to be down at the Heronry before my vacation was over.
The heronry is probably very old, as in 1834 it was described as 'long established and very populous.
But the chief attraction is the very large rookery andheronry contained on one of the two large wooded islands.
It is not given to many to see a large heronry at breeding time, but should the opportunity offer, it is well worth your while.
I observe that the herons in the heronry on the Findhorn are now busily employed in sitting on their eggs--the heron being one of the first birds to commence breeding in this country.
After dinner we went to the heronry that Harris had seen yesterday afternoon; for we had moved only one mile above the place of our wooding before we were again forced on shore.
Harris found a heronry of the common Blue Heron, composed of about thirty nests, but the birds were shy and he did not shoot at any.
He at once entered the sacred precincts to investigate, and soon discovered the Heronry situated on an island in the middle of a large sheet of ornamental water.
Of all his birds'-nesting exploits, the one which Leroux himself always considered the greatest achievement was his raid on the Heronry at Tombe Abbey.
Selous had shortly before raided the heronry on the island at Coombe Abbey.
The Herons go out in the morning to rivers and ponds, at a very considerable distance, in search of food, and return to the heronry towards the evening.
But Captain Belton only laughed, and matters at the Heronry remained as they were, till one day with the other letters there came one that was big and official, and its effect upon the two old officers was striking.
The history of his insolence about the heronry was now related by Marvel; and the stranger seemed to sympathize so much in his feelings, that, from a stranger, he began to consider him as a friend.
Something must be done, he saw, to retrieve his credit: ad the heronry was his resource.
But I declare I feel hurt that you should have been at the Heronry and not paid us a visit.
It was nearly eleven o'clock, and all the inmates of the Heronry were in bed or going to it.
You will go, or send some one, at once to theHeronry with this note.
Sidenote: A NOBLE DAME] For two possessions is Parham noted: a heronry in the park, and in the house a copy of Montaigne with Shakespeare's autograph in it.
The migration commenced immediately, but appears to have been gradual; for three seasons elapsed before all the members of the heronry had found their way over the Downs to their new quarters in the fir-woods of Parham.
The most interesting time to visit the heronry is in the breeding season, for then one sees the lank birds continually homing from the Amberley Wild Brooks with fishes in their bills and long legs streaming behind.
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