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Nanjemoy Creek is a 13.1-mile-long (21.1 km) [2] tidal tributary of the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland, United States, located between Cedar Point Neck and Tayloe's Neck. Its watershed area (excluding water) is 73 square miles (190 km 2 ), with 2% impervious surface in 1994.
Across the river on the north bank is the rookery. Annually, these great birds return to nest. The great blue heron is the largest of the North American heron families. They stand 4 feet (1.2 m) tall and have a wingspan of 7 feet (2.1 m). It is best to visit with a ranger on a guide walk as the birds can be hard to find, high in their nests. [3]
Woodpeckers and owls are in the canopy, a great blue heron rookery can be heard, and songbirds dart among the tree trunks. Explore one of the Lowcountry’s most scenic areas with a kayak trip on ...
Nanjemoy is within the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of the Capital Beltway (Interstates 95 and 495).. The area is served by Maryland Route 6 and other two-lane state highways; the nearest major roads are Maryland Route 210 to the north and U.S. Route 301 to the east.
The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America, as well as far northwestern South America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. It is occasionally found in the Azores and is a rare vagrant to Europe.
A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) rookery was protected and made part of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1980. The herons, numbering 98 nesting pairs as of 2001, have made their home on the eastern portion of the wet woods along the Little Calumet River for more than 60 years.
Jun. 29—A district court judge has denied an injunction to halt development of a great blue heron nesting site west of Rochester. International Properties LLC, owned by Aderonke Mordi, plans to ...
The largest great blue heron rookery in Vermont has been on the refuge's Shad Island. This rookery fluctuates from about 250 to almost 600 nests each year. This rookery has been reduced in since 2015, due to an increasing bald eagle population. [4] More than 20,000 ducks converge on the refuge each fall and find habitat for feeding and resting.