Every year during nesting season a fence is put up around a tree next to the driveway leading into the Belmont Olympic Pool to insure some semblance of privacy for the feathered creatures dwelling therein.
There seem to be an abundance of heron, but they don’t have exclusive rights to this particular horny corner as American bitterns and snowy egrets have also been spotted roosting within the branches. The body of a dead bird with its wings draped out like something from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre serves to complete this tree of life. And death.
