{"id":2620,"date":"2014-08-21T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2014-08-21T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:43:27","slug":"the-wilds-of-antrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2620","title":{"rendered":"The “Wilds” of Antrim"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning about 9, my CWS* announced that an AWS** had emailed saying that there was a great blue heron on the Mill Pond behind town hall.<\/p>\n

It takes about seven or eight minutes to drive from our house to the town hall…\u00a0I was on the scene in the parking lot behind town hall by about 9:15!<\/p>\n

When I arrived the bird was atop the pile of rocks in the middle of the pond by the bandstand in Memorial Park. I got two or three frames before it moved to the far side of the pond and began hunting. The hunting was poor as I saw him\/her make a single attempt to grab prey in about 45 minutes. At about 10 AM the bird moved from the pond to a tree near dam at the south end of the pond. After a few minutes of preening, \u00a0(s)he flew again, this time headed east over Main Street and towards the Contoocook River.<\/p>\n

I chatted briefly with the folks in Town Hall (including the AWS) and was back home before 10:30; not a bad way to spend 90 minutes.<\/p>\n

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*Chief Wildlife Spotter; i.e. my wife, Joan.<\/p>\n

** Associate Wildlife Spotter; one has to have a network! Thanks… you know who you are!!!<\/p>\n

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