Still heaving a sigh of relief, and I'll be looking online to see how the parents and the babies are doing, in the days ahead! We too have Black-crowned Night Herons here (India) and I also remember how often, on the Forest Park Forever bird walks, we were shown their nests in the avenue of (then) quite small trees leading away from the Visitors Centre. Though they seemed used to humans, I liked to keep a comfortable distance from them while observing them.

Here's one I took a few miles from my home; several of the photos of this bird in my Flickr collection are from Forest Park!

Cheers, Deepa.

On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 8:20 PM Monacell, Peter L. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Thanks for the link Maureen. The woman with binoculars from 1:03-1:05 in this video is my wife Michelle. (We’ve been staying in St. Louis for a couple of days, just for fun.) The news crew happened to be filming the whole time we were there, and we enjoyed talking to Jennifer Holder and to several of the local residents, who were very interested in sharing the birds with us.

Good birding everyone,
Pete

Pete Monacell
Jefferson City

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On Jul 6, 2019, at 6:49 AM, Maureen Thomas-Murphy <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

CAUTION!: This email originated from outside of Columbia College.

And by the way, during my watch last night, there was a Fox news camera truck present, though no one got out of it and as I was leaving, another Fox vehicle pulled up. This is a link to the story I found:

https://fox2now.com/2019/07/05/effort-underway-to-reunite-special-birds-with-mother/

Maureen
St Louis

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