Dateline – June 23, 2012 Last summer there was a natural disaster on Chamberlain Drive in Carrollton, Texas. It wasn’t your typical natural disaster, however. It wasn’t a hail storm, or a tornado, or an earthquake, or a wildfire. It was a heron rookery. Hundreds of herons and egrets took up residence in the stately
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News account of a Carrollton’s neighborhood’s attempt to deal with invading herons and egrets. CBS 11 – Texas Residents Ready for Egret Invasion FOX 4 – Noisy Neighbors Work Together to Battle Egrets CBS 11 – Carrollton Residents Fighting Egret Migration NBC 12 – Texas Town Launches Counter-assault Against Egret Invasion
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News account of a Carrollton’s neighborhood’s attempt to deal with invading herons and egrets. nbcdfw.com – City Readying to Battle Egret Nesting I am a little late posting this link. The original NBC article was posted January 30, 2012. I’m posting now, because this is the time of the year when the herons and
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Dateline – July 18, 2011 WARNING: This article contains graphic imagery. As the long, hot, Texas summer continues unabated, so do the problems faced by a quaint north Texas neighborhood. Early this spring scores of egrets and herons established a breeding colony along the tree-lined streets of Chamberlain Drive and Addington Drive in Carrollton. These
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Dateline – June 2, 2011 The Residents of this quiet suburban neighborhood have a problem. Their peaceful, tree-lined street has been invaded by an army of birds. Hundreds of egrets and herons have chosen the thick canopy of trees along Chamberlain Drive in north Carrollton for their nesting site this year, and people who live
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