Black-crowned Night Heron
Last year we visited the duck pond when the babies were fledglings. They nest in trees, and the babies were as big as the parents. Watching them feed by stabbing those dangerous looking beaks down their parents' throats is scary and thrilling.
Black-crowned Night Heron. Photo taken with Canon PowerShot at the duck pond on March 14th at close to 5 pm. I don't remember where I originally identified this bird. Probably the National Geographic book.
They make cool, wonking sounds when they fly overhead at dusk. They're all over the place in the evergreens around the Belmont Pool. My favorite heron of them all!
ReplyDeleteMine, too. I'll have to head over to the pool. I'd like to get some pictures of the parrots hang out in the palms around there.
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