After disrupting all the seagulls on Bird Party Island, we paddled over to the larger of the Murphy Islands. This one had less gulls, more trees, and these goofy fuckers. I wouldn’t have guessed it, but great blue herons make their nests in trees! Check it out:

They don’t seem like they’d be particularly savvy architects and I don’t know if I’d trust these nests to hold one of my kids, but I guess it works for them. Once we started looking carefully, we noticed that the trees were full of these precarious, twiggy, heaps: