One of my birding stops today was seeing if the reported Yellow-crowned Night-Heron was still present. After 4 days this juvenile bird is still hanging around. It was perched 20 feet off the ground in a Willow tree over looking a small pond. It was a cloudy day, cold with temps only at 37 degrees and a good north wind making it feel like winter. Image was taken on April 14, 2021.
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron fishing, feeding and resting at Lakeshore State Park in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Photographs were taken on July 10, 2014. It has been a real treat to view and photograph this rare visitor whose normal range is the southeastern US.
Resting
Binomial name: Nyctanassa violacea
Category: Bitterns, Herons, and Allies
Size: 24” long, 42” wing span
Weight: 1.5 Lb.
Fishing
Fishing and hears something its left side.
Catching the crayfish!
Killing the crayfish
Killing the crayfish
Killing the crayfish
Killing the crayfish
Killing the crayfish
And down it goes!
Fishing with the reflection of a Ring-billed Gull in the water.
Resting
Fishing
Fishing
Killing the crayfish after another catch!
Killing the crayfish
Killing the crayfish
Killing the crayfish
Fishing
Fishing
Back view
Fishing
Fishing
Fishing
Hunting
