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One of our young after ringing. 

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Shows our ring which we will explain in our display .

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BTO volunteers looking at camera they have in the nest to see if birds are ok to ring. You can see a pole going into the canopy. We hope to get pictures from this in the future.

     There are 9 trees containing heron nests on the island and 6 of them are able to be climbed.  Some of the trees and nests can only be seen when on the island itself.  In total we counted 21 nests and at least 12 of them (but more likely 13) are occupied this year and contained eggs or young. Due to the protracted breeding season of herons there are always nests at different stages and this is what we found. There are some nests still on eggs whilst others contain large young.  We have managed to ring one brood of 4 young in a tree that contained 4 nests; one on 6 eggs, one with 2 dead young and one with 3 young too large to ring.  It appears that the larger nests have the larger young in them this year.  There are always nest failures and it looks like the weather may have taken its toll on at least 2 nests this year.

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