black-crowned

I promised you all that I would post this today! I was photographing this first year Black Crowned Night Heron, catching small minnows and bugs. All of the sudden it came up with what looks like a rather large dill pickle. This is a brackish water, and it is very near a public walkway...

Caught this first year, Black-crowned Night Heron catching little fish and shrimp in the shallows of the estuary. I will post a fun picture of one of it's captures tomorrow!! I know, I know, the suspense is killing you! But I have already posted two other photos so.....

You just know it has to be pretty darn hot for the local Herons to just plop down in the water and sit there!! This Black-crowned sat there for nearly an hour before climbing out onto a branch, drying off ands flying up into the dense foliage This not a great photo, as it was a long ways...

In doing my research for this weeks article, I was digging thru my photo logs, and found this shot of the Black-crowned Night Heron. It was actually born right in the marina that I live and work in, so I have gotten to watch it grow to maturity! Such a lovely bird, until he decides to spend the...

Dock dweller waiting for a handout.

Juvenile Nycticorax nycticorax in the reeds at Lindo Lake, Lakeside, San Diego County, CA, U.S.A., 06-23-12, Canon EOS 7D 400/f5.6L. http://www.picturetrail.com/marysan

Nycticorax nycticorax - pedrete corona-negra - black-crowned night heron

As the morning wore on and birdie siesta time approached, this black-crowned night heron chick suddenly lost it, with a mighty yawn!

Juvenile Black-crowned Night-heron

Black-Crowned Night-Heron in breeding plummage