Urban Nature Walk

[lizziebelle]

This morning, I went to Rice Reservation & Lyman Pond in Westwood with urbpan and a couple others on another Urban Nature Walk. We met behind the high school, and after rambling about in the woods and stumbling upon a pair of snapping turtles laying their eggs, we finally found our way to the pond where there was a great blue heron rookery. That was

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[urbpan]

Great pictures, Elizabeth!

[lizziebelle]

Thanks! And thanks for picking a cool place!

[urbpan]

Glad it worked out eventually ;)

[lizziebelle]

I've seen nests before, but never with herons (and babies!) in them.

[queenoftheskies]

Oooooh, such wonderful pics! I love the turtles so much and the heron in its nest is fabulous! I adore herons. Thank you for sharing.

And, I missed the top pic at first, for some reason. Hooooow amazing!

[lizziebelle]

One of my favorite birds. I was so tickled to get to see the nests!

[maryjdal]

Wow - that must have been such a blast to see.

[lizziebelle]

It was very cool! It took us a while to find a way in to a spot from which we could get a good view, but it was worth it.

[asakiyume]

That first shot of the herons' rookery is amazing. It seems so otherworldly, or prehistoric.

[lizziebelle]

You can really believe they're descended from dinosaurs. They even sound like dinos, especially the babies!