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Black-crowned Night Heron juvenile


This is far from being a good photo, which is why I am slipping it in as the third photo this morning. Usually, I rarely ever see these Black-crowned Night Herons and when I have seen one, it has been a large speck in the distance. This one was high up in a tall tree and, as you might guess from the photo, the light was not good. Unfortunately, you can't tell that it has beautiful, bright orange eyes. I will add a previously posted, better image of this bird, taken at the same location on 7 October, in a comment box below.
This photo was taken on 9 October 2015, when I decided to drive to the east end of Fish Creek Park and walk down to the Lafarge Meadows area to see if there was any sign of this Night Heron. Two days earlier, I had been lucky enough to see it closer, in a small pond and in much better light. This time, it was much more difficult to find.
"Black-crowned Night-Herons are stocky birds compared to many of their long-limbed heron relatives. They’re most active at night or at dusk, when you may see their ghostly forms flapping out from daytime roosts to forage in wetlands. In the light of day adults are striking in gray-and-black plumage and long white head plumes. These social birds breed in colonies of stick nests usually built over water. They live in fresh, salt, and brackish wetlands and are the most widespread heron in the world." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-crowned_Night-Heron/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-crowned_night_heron
This photo was taken on 9 October 2015, when I decided to drive to the east end of Fish Creek Park and walk down to the Lafarge Meadows area to see if there was any sign of this Night Heron. Two days earlier, I had been lucky enough to see it closer, in a small pond and in much better light. This time, it was much more difficult to find.
"Black-crowned Night-Herons are stocky birds compared to many of their long-limbed heron relatives. They’re most active at night or at dusk, when you may see their ghostly forms flapping out from daytime roosts to forage in wetlands. In the light of day adults are striking in gray-and-black plumage and long white head plumes. These social birds breed in colonies of stick nests usually built over water. They live in fresh, salt, and brackish wetlands and are the most widespread heron in the world." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-crowned_Night-Heron/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-crowned_night_heron
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