I drove back to Holcim Wetlands this evening to look for the Least Bittern I believe I saw this morning and try to get a photo of the TRICOLORED HERON using my 400 mm telephoto lens instead of my 70-300. I ran into a local birder and his son who is also an avid birder. They had seen the heron and ran into a birding couple who also saw it before it flew across the wetlands. In our discussion they asked if there were 2 TRICOLORED HERONS as they thought they had seen 2-- to which I blithely responded "no" and something to the effect this is too rare a species here to have more than one. After they left I spotted the TRICOLORED HERON fly into the distant edge of the reeds and disappear down into them. Then I spotted the 3 Black-crowned Night-Herons and walked towards where they flew to try to get a better look to get the age of all three when I saw the silhouette (now after 8 pm and getting dark) of a water bird that had a very large bill. It was a TRICOLORED HERON and it was quite a distance from where I had watched a TRICOLORED HERON fly to. I had been watching this area and had not seen this heron fly in from the other location. So did I miss the one TRICOLORED HERON fly over or could there two of these rarities??
By the way I saw the Green Heron again tonight--it was perched on a distant long log with a Great Blue Heron on one end and a Black-crowned Heron (originally thought this was the TRICOLORED) on the other end with the Green Heron in between. Nice birds today. SeEtta Moss Canon City Personal blog @ http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com Blogging for Birds an Blooms Magazine @ http://BirdsAndBloomsBlog.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAAUvckrxE2VHk8fTiGd3j3UnuW1a3UMQ%3DW3Fixi%3DQNim1pTY9g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
