(At least) 26 Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) Flying Back to Their Treetop Nests

March 24, 2022:
Today's bit-o-nature is a video providing context for the recent Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) photos. For some reason, every now and then, it appears that all the Herons in the rookery launch from their (under construction) nests in the treetops, and circle around overhead. Unfortunately, when they do this, they get so close and are so large that it's not possible to fit more than one or two of them in frame with the birding lens on the camera. For the very first time I was fast enough to capture a portion of their flight using my smartphone to record a video. I count 26 birds in the video, but I'm pretty sure there were additional ones that were out of frame despite the, lower magnification, smartphone optics.