In 1984 John and his collaborators won a Studio X-2 Grant from the Jerome Foundation, for which he teamed with choreographer Susan Delattre and composer Pat Moriarty to present onstage his poem cycle " The Heronry " with voice, jazz and dancers.
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Kaggaladu is located about 9 km to the north-west of Sira, a town on the Sira-Chengavara Main Road and the heronry was first made known to the outside world in 1999 by members of the Tumkur-based NGO Wildlife Aware Nature Club.
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The Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust have spent many years reworking old sand and gravel quarries into a major Nature Reserve ( officially opened in June 2011 ) and over 100 species of birds have been recorded including key colonies of tree-nesting cormorants, a major heronry and sand martins.
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An 1847 county guidebook observed of the bird-life in the parish : The extensive wood is frequented by the fork-tailed kite, and used to possess a heronry . In 1933 the wood was the home of a large brown, or'white-tailed', eagle with a seven-foot wingspan.
