The herons stand around the ponds here hunting fish so easy to verify. Beautiful birds really, but I hate that they eat the ducklings.That’s really sad. There’s a lot of heron here at the Chesapeake Bay. but sometimes I wonder if some of them could also be egrets or even ibises lol
I had one fly overhead and land on my duck house last year, all I could think of to do was scream until it flew away.
We used to have a ton of ducks and Canadian geese, but the flocks are much smaller. I’ve wondered how much is due to predation vs avian influenza.