I was at an Organ Concert when I read the email alert of the Tricolored Heron
on my phone during intermission. This is not the place you want to be when you
get one of these but since I was with someone and more interested in the second
half I stayed. I decided I might have a better chance in the evening so after
dinner I went to Van Dyne Spoor Road with no other directions for this great
bird. I arrived at 6:30 pm and after more than an hour I found it. First I
found a Black-crowned Night-Heron and watched it for awhile then 3 or 4
juvenile BCNHs arrived and dropped into the marsh. I watched the adult for
awhile and then 3 more adults arrived and they all stayed up in the small trees
staring down into the marsh. Then I looked back where the first adult was and
in its place was the Tricolored Heron and the adult was BCNH was underneath the
same tree. Then they changed places again and the Tricolored Heron stayed
nearby down on the ground. When the Tricolored was in the tree I got a good
look at the bill which was longer and thinner than the Black-crowned
Night-Herons. The TRHE was a dark purplish gray and when it flew from the tree
I could see the white, chest, body and underwings. It seemed to stay on the
ground for a long long time and I wanted to watch the night herons but I was
afraid I would loss it. I watched it fly one more time and then settle less
than 12 feet away. I watched it stretch its long neck out. It may stay right
there all night. I’d like to be there in the morning to see.
Here are directions to this spot: I was near the middle of the road past
the trees. I was between telephone poles 296 and 297 just to the east of a
small white NWR sign. Looking south from there is a small narrow channel of
open water. The trees the herons were in are just to the left (east) of this.
Go get it!
As I left Savannah it sounded like rain as the bugs hit my windshield.
Leona Lauster
Lyons, NY
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