Hi all Two or three years ago we found a Yellow-crowned Night Heron attempting to breed with one of the Black-crowned Night Herons (unsuccessful ... 3 or 4 eggs though). I found a Yellow-crowned Night Heron yesterday at Glenmere Park while on my birding journey. It just so happened I felt inclined to scan all trees carefully--becaue I had not seen any "white birds" and was determined to find one (lone Snowy Egret). While scanning on north side of park at the bench along the shore I carefully went tree-to-tree looking at each bird (lots of Black-crowneds). At the top of tree on west I noticed a Black-crowned pair and next to it what looked like a smaller bird which caused me to say "hmmm, this sleeping bird is different, smaller and I can notice feather pattern on back more noticeably". I watched it for long while and "wallah" it raised it's head; turned around; and even faced me--a Yellow-crowned Night Heron! If it is the same yellow-crowned from 2-3 years ago it stayed for about a month and a half.
Photos: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/photo/albums/yellow-crowned-night-heron-glenmere-park-greeley Latham/Beebe Draw (oil rig going up directly across from south large flooded area on north side of WCR 48): Lots of usuals Long-billed Dowitcher Great Egret - 2 Semi-palmated Sandpiper Sora - 2 Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com/ Mobile: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m -- 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/c1ee2d6d-19a3-48ec-8ad9-ca90a546285e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
