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Powerful Leap

Standing still like an expert mime is the trademark of the Black-crowned Night Heron. This adult individual waits on the

It was 10:30 in the morning already, and plenty of people were up and in the park, so you’d think

Photographer James Kusz had his camera ready when this Black-crowned Night Heron got ready to pounce, and did pounce, in

I’m so accustomed to seeing the Black-crowned Night Heron in the wet that I forget it’s perfectly at home in

This bird held so still that at first I mistook it for a stone. The Black-crowned Night Heron easily outdoes

A tree not far from the park entrance is the habitual perch of this Black-crowned Night Heron, seen here preening.

I saw a young Night Heron on the south shore of the Open Circle Viewpoint in late February. This one,

This light brown streaked bird perched on a rock just above water level minutes after sunrise on the south side

Just a day after I saw the cormorant fast asleep on a nearby rock opposite the hotel, a Black-crowned Night

The Open Circle viewpoint is the only spot from which you can see the rocks on the east edge of

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