MethuenRailTrail » Great Blue Heron http://methuenrailtrail.org Tue, 15 May 2012 00:52:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Great Horned Owl nesting in Methuen GBH Rookery http://methuenrailtrail.org/2012/03/great-horned-owl-nesting-in-methuen-gbh-rookery/ http://methuenrailtrail.org/2012/03/great-horned-owl-nesting-in-methuen-gbh-rookery/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:54:54 +0000 admin http://methuenrailtrail.org/?p=1104 When you get out on the rail trail this year keep an eye out for a Great Horned Owl. He has taken up residence in one of the Great Blue Heron Nests out in the Rookery on the Spicket River.

Specifically if you are standing on the trail looking west into the Spicket at all the Heron nests his is the furthest to the LEFT (south.)

Robbie Valcourt has taken a few shots of him in his nest and out of it. He may be hard to see in the deep nest but he will be the one with out the long neck!

So bring your binocs and your long lenses.

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I was out walking the Methuen Rail Trail with some folks from the Eagle Tribune online and we discovered that the Baby Herons have popped up all over the place.

This area is a few hundred feet north from the MSPCA road, just to the east of Route 93. All the heron nests perched in trees, vaguely resembles pterodactyl nests, and the baby herons are sticking their heads up.


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