It’s not It everyday that you see eye to eye with this bird. What is it? (Photographed in DeKorte Park in mid-August.)
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It’s not It everyday that you see eye to eye with this bird. What is it? (Photographed in DeKorte Park in mid-August.)
Is it a juvenile black crowned night heron?
since you said its not everyday that you come eye to eye with it could it be a juvenile yellow crowned night heron since its less common?
I would agree with A. DiGregorio, yellow or possible black crown juvenile
At first I thought possible a purple finch, but the eyes….a give away….
I’d say yellow-crowned night-heron…the yellow extends past the eye on the BCNH, on this is goes only to the eye. Also is that the little feathers I see on top? That could indicate they’re going to grow into the “crown” of the YCNH.
Juvie YCNH. The eye looks too red for a Black-crowned.
I have never seen a YCNH as far inland as Dekorte Park: I have only seen them much further to the east, generally at Anderson Marsh or in those environs just off the river. Yet, to me it is clearly a night heron eye. So I bet juvie BCNH.