The juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron has been around for a couple of weeks now and on the two previous occasions that I popped over to the pond I missed seeing it. To be fair it always was in the middle of the day and being a Night-Heron it wasn't too surprising. This afternoon on my way over to Middle Creek I decided to have another shot at it, figuratively speaking of course. When I pulled up at the pond the first thing I saw was a hulking great Cooper's Hawk and I hoped it hadn't had Night-heron for lunch. Not too far away though stood the Yellow-crowned oblivious to the evil looking Cooper's.
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| juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
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| juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
I failed miserably with locating the Limpkin at Middle Creek but did manage a juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron for comparison.
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| juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron on the Middle Creek Dam |
Nice!
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