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
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
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