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](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6913_cr.jpg)
Resting
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Binomial name: Nyctanassa violacea
Category: Bitterns, Herons, and Allies
Size: 24” long, 42” wing span
Weight: 1.5 Lb.
![Hunting](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6998_cr.jpg)
Fishing
![Fishing and hears something its right side.](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6603_cr.jpg)
Fishing and hears something its left side.
![Catching the crayfish!](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6609_cr.jpg)
Catching the crayfish!
![Killing the crayfish](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6633_cr.jpg)
Killing the crayfish
![Killing the crayfish](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6643_cr.jpg)
Killing the crayfish
![Killing the crayfish](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6645_cr.jpg)
Killing the crayfish
![Killing the crayfish](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6666_cr.jpg)
Killing the crayfish
![Killing the crayfish](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6681_cr.jpg)
Killing the crayfish
![Killing the crayfish](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6711_cr.jpg)
And down it goes!
![Fishing with the reflection of a Ring-billed Gull in the water.](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6719_cr.jpg)
Fishing with the reflection of a Ring-billed Gull in the water.
![Resting](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6517_cr.jpg)
Resting
![Fishing](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6486_cr.jpg)
Fishing
![Fishing](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6305_cr.jpg)
Fishing
![Killing the crayfish after another catch!](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6147_cr.jpg)
Killing the crayfish after another catch!
![Killing the crayfish](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6154_cr.jpg)
Killing the crayfish
![Killing the crayfish](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6160_cr.jpg)
Killing the crayfish
![Killing the crayfish](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6183_cr.jpg)
Killing the crayfish
![Hunting](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6367_cr.jpg)
Fishing
![Hunting](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6494_cr.jpg)
Fishing
![Back view](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6939_cr.jpg)
Back view
![Fishing](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6818_cr.jpg)
Fishing
![Fishing](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_6889_cr.jpg)
Fishing
![Fishing](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_4934_cr.jpg)
Fishing
![Hunting](https://www.windowtowildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rIMG_4964_cr.jpg)
Hunting