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Photo of the Week: Elusive Black-crowned Night Heron

May 1, 2016 By Deborah Edwards-Onoro

Black-crowned Night Heron sitting on a tree limb

What a pleasant surprise I had yesterday! I added three life birds (Horned Grebe, Lesser Scaup, and American Golden Plover) to my birding list, and saw lots of migrating water birds and several neotropical songbirds near Lake Erie.

It was wonderful to see the life birds, though I wish I had been able to capture better shots of them (you’ll see a shot of the Horned Grebe at the end of this post).

Nonetheless, one of the birds that stood out for me was the Black-crowned Night Heron I saw at Erie Marsh Preserve in Monroe Michigan, just north of the Ohio border. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Elusive Black-crowned Night Heron

Filed Under: Michigan, Nature Tagged With: birds, birdwatching, Black-crowned Night Heron, Erie Marsh, Great Lakes, Greater Yellowlegs, Horned Grebe, Mute Swan, Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, photo of the week, spring migration

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