Judging by the freshness of the guano examined today, it was not long
ago that our six yellow-crowned night herons left Columbus. Both
nests--the active one and the abandoned one--seem to have survived the
turbulent weather that dropped a 60-foot honey locust with a two-foot
bole into my back yard. It is reasonable to hope some of the young will
return with the adults next year to restore the two-pair colony for Year
17, even though the city of Bexley's announced plans to make the Alum
Creek corridor a more popular recreational attraction may send them
elsewhere. We'll see.
Bill Whan
Columbus

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