Comments on: Beyond Bounds: Yellow-crowned Night-heron http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2010/01/21/beyond-bounds-yellow-crowned-night-heron/ A Bird Blog with Kate St. John Sat, 25 May 2013 03:00:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jennifer http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2010/01/21/beyond-bounds-yellow-crowned-night-heron/comment-page-1/#comment-13389 Jennifer Fri, 13 May 2011 14:26:47 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=13559#comment-13389 I am just becoming a backyard birder. I am enjoying watching a pair of Yellow-Crowned Night Herons build their nest. Sounds like they are not too common up here in coastal CT but not rare either. They are very full, fluffy birds – took a long time to find them in websites because I didnt notice the yellow crown until a friend took a photo and we zoomed in. Neat! Nice blog ;-)

]]> By: Marge Van Tassel http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2010/01/21/beyond-bounds-yellow-crowned-night-heron/comment-page-1/#comment-8587 Marge Van Tassel Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:03:38 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=13559#comment-8587 As always, Steve has captured a beautiful bird so crisp it’s almost like looking at it yourself. He certainly does the birds justice!!
Thanks for an interesting article about this heron, Kate…I also got a chuckle out of your view of the one with “bleary eyes” in NJ. Hope to see one of these beauties this year.

]]> By: kelly http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2010/01/21/beyond-bounds-yellow-crowned-night-heron/comment-page-1/#comment-8585 kelly Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:34:33 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=13559#comment-8585 in my coastal hometown of manasquan, new jersey (approx. 20 miles south of sandy hook), there are a decent amount of yellow-crowned night-herons around during the breeding season. your entry made me think of something i never thought of before: i’ve encountered these beauties in all types of light conditions. i see them during the day and have seen and heard them during the nighttime also. there is a small nesting colony that has chosen to utilize the tall trees of a busy residential area near a marsh for about 5 years running now. they nest right above the street which makes the nests easy to find for those paying attention (think large, fishy-smelling splat marks on black pavement). my most memorable sighting of these birds includes a juvenile foraging with an adult. the adult passed over a big crab in favor of the smaller fiddler crabs which it easily picked off and wolfed down. the juvenile did not take the adult’s lead. it could not resist the big crab and spent a good half hour trying to figure out how to eat it. in the end after lots of stabs (literally), it somehow positioned the crab in a way so that it went down whole. it was painful to watch. ouch!!!

thanks for reminding me of summer!

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