Just 48 hours later.....
March 21, 2016
These parent birds are new to the heronry, and so are quite flighty, so to avoid disturbing them further, I have used one of our library pictures to show you a picture of mother heron and her two babies.
There may be up to five chicks in total - dependent on how plentiful the food supply is. As a rule we do not put any food out for the herons, unless the winter is particularly severe and the local reservoirs and lakes freeze over.
The majority of the herons diet is fish and frogs, but they will make a meal of rats and mice/voles, and even birds up to the size of a coot.
Nigel
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