Something must be done, he saw, to retrieve his credit: ad the heronry was his resource. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)
Sleepy cormorants fly into the heronry in a tall alder beyond the mere. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)
Nereids, and other fabulous deities of the seas and rivers, made its appearance upon the lake, and issuing from behind a small heronry where it had been concealed, floated gently towards the farther end of the bridge. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In the reign of Elizabeth a survey of Hurstmonceux was taken, which tells us that in the park were two hundred deer, "four fair ponds" stocked with carp and tench, a "fair warren of conies," a heronry of 150 nests, and much game. ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)
The migration commenced immediately, but appears to have been gradual; for three seasons elapsed before all the members of the heronry had found their way over the Downs to their new quarters in the fir-woods of ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)
During the morning we passed through pleasant scenery, and I observed a heronry in some dead trees on the left, while a deer swam the creek two hundred yards ahead of the boat; the lake being reached shortly before noon. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)
Rooks and jackdaws sometimes take up their quarters near to a heronry, and do you know they steal their eggs, the rogues, and devour them. ❋ W. Houghton (N/A)
The most interesting time to visit the heronry is in the breeding season, for then one sees the lank birds continually homing from the Amberley Wild Brooks with fishes in their bills and long legs streaming behind. ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)
Parham have assured me that their shrill cry may be heard at all hours of the night, during the summer season, as they fly to and fro overhead, on their passage between the heronry and the open country. ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)
For two possessions is Parham noted: a heronry in the park, and in the house a copy of Montaigne with Shakespeare's autograph in it. ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)
When we awoke, they were gone, but we found the heronry that morning on one of the oak-covered knolls that rise like islands out of the heart of the great salt marshes. ❋ Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris (1917)
On another island, where we also found a big colony of frigate-birds roosting on the mangrove and Gulf tamarisk scrub, there was a small heronry of the Louisiana heron. ❋ Unknown (1916)
Herne Hill should be a hill with a heronry on it, but the name is new; it was King's Hill when John Speed made his map in the days of ❋ Eric Parker (1912)
There was a heronry among the trees on the edge of it, but otherwise the marsh was not used save as a storehouse for the basket-makers. ❋ L. Lamprey (1910)
Eleanor's heart beat fast as they neared the heronry. ❋ L. Lamprey (1910)
Once, when drifting over the beaver pond through the delicate witchery of the moonlight, I heard five or six of the great birds croaking excitedly at the heronry, which they had deserted weeks before. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)
They found the school very excited over a heronry which they could see on an island in the lake. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)
The two hawks, which had come to the ground interlocked with clutching talons and ruffled plumes, were torn apart and brought back bleeding and panting to their perches, while the heron after its perilous adventure flapped its way heavily onward to settle safely in the heronry of Waverley. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)
To gain the full sport of hawking a heron must not be put up from its feeding-ground, where it is heavy with its meal, and has no time to get its pace on before it is pounced upon by the more active hawk, but it must be aloft, traveling from point to point, probably from the fish-stream to the heronry. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)
Into this magic borderland, dimmer for moonlit glimpses in ghostly contrast to the shadow shape of wood and glade, Eileen conducted Selwyn; and they heard the whirr of painted wood-ducks passing in obscurity, and the hymn of the four winds off Wonder Head; and they heard the herons, noisy in their heronry, and a young fox yapping on a moon-struck dune. ❋ Unknown (1899)
