Published Spring 2007

In 2006 a group of citizen volunteers with Leadership Skagit teamed up with Skagit Land Trust and Padilla Bay Research Reserve to install a video camera in the March's Point Heronry. The camera, secured high up in a tree, is linked remotely to the Padilla Bay Research Reserve, where the public can view the action. This "Heron Cam" provides virtual access to tell the Great Blue Herons' remarkable story. As one visitor exclaimed, "You mean it's a live camera? We're really seeing a bird that's there right now?" The answer is "Yes!" Plans are underway now to send the live images to Padilla Bay's website where anyone with Internet access can enjoy it.

The true stars are the herons themselves. The March's Point Heronry sits on six acres of land owned by several owners, one of which is Skagit Land Trust. With over 550 pairs of nesting adult Great Blue Herons plus their young, this heronry is believed to be the largest of its type in all of Puget Sound, and quite possibly, in all of the Western United States.

You are invited to view the herons and their chicks in "real time" in the main exhibit room at the Breazeale Interpretive Center anytime from Early March until the babies fledge. You can also see it on the web.