Kanzaki Heron colony 3

Grey Herons, アオサギ are maybe the first to build their nests. Their was a lot of noise from young chicks coming from all the trees and some of them were already quite big.

Most nests had 2 or 3 babies. The parents, busy feeding them were flying on and off.

  

I can't possibly say how many nesting pairs there were, but I would say hundreds. It must be a safe place for them, though not all goes without any mishaps. Nesting so close together the community had some quarrels. Some birds would come back to a nest that was mostly dismantled by their neighbors, or left unattended and then...