Usage examples (37)

• Sleepy cormorants fly into the heronry in a tall alder beyond the mere.
• 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.
• 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.
• His sheep died, and he set out for Spalding full of the thoughts of the heronry.