This juvenile Black-crowned Night-heron may have been in the area for a few
days. On July 5, a woman on bicycle in this area mentioned to me that she saw a
strange small heron that was brown and had its neck tucked in which was being
attacked by crows. She knew it was not a cormorant or a Great
Yesterday evening at about 8:45 there was a juvenile Black-Crowned Night
Heron poking around on the Salt Point shore of the creek just about
where the grassy gravel bar in the creek begins (as you come upstream
from the lake). I watched it until it flew up into a cottonwood on the
Salt Point
