Travel Challenge August 2008
This month we have a “Count the Animals” photo for you to decipher. The challenge is to not only identify the animal in question but to guess how many of them are in the picture.
Please be as specific as possible. Good luck!
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Instructions: When you think you have figured it out, enter your guess in the comment field below. Be sure to check back next week to see if you were right.
Note: We are returning to our old format of hiding all comments until we reveal all the guesses at once next week. Hopefully it will make for a better Travel Challenge.
The photo has not been doctored; it is the glorious combination of two things, my lack of ability as a photographer and the subjects’ stubborn refusal to be photographed. Happy guessing!
Nine Great Blue Herons
I’ll go with 9 blue herons.
[...] This month’s challenge was won once again by Alison, she is really good with birds! Hidden in the reeds were nine Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) in various states of relaxation. Personally, I think they should be called Great Grey Herons, but nobody asked me. The largest of the North American herons, GBHs nest in fairly large groups called heronries. They usually nest in trees or bushes near water. While the heronry that we saw at Edmonds Marsh (in the Puget Sound area) was relatively small, some of these colonies can have up to 500 nests. [...]