Black Crowned Night Heron Eye Shot
by Linda Brody
Title
Black Crowned Night Heron Eye Shot
Artist
Linda Brody
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Black Crowned Night Heron Eye Shot .
Taken at Santa Ana Lakes, Orange County, California. November 2016 on an overcast day just before a rainstorm. A birding ground is located at Santa Ana Lakes, a series of retention basins and fishing lakes.
Black-crowned Night-Herons are stocky birds compared to many of their long-limbed heron relatives. They are most active at night or at dusk, when you may see their ghostly forms flapping out from daytime roosts to forage in wetlands. In the light of day adults are striking in gray-and-black plumage and long white head plumes. These social birds breed in colonies of stick nests usually built over water. They live in fresh, salt, and brackish wetlands and are the most widespread heron in the world.
Adults are approximately 25 inches long and weigh 28 ounces. They have a black crown and back with the remainder of the body white or grey, red eyes, and short yellow legs. They have pale grey wings and white under parts. Two or three long white plumes, erected in greeting and courtship displays, extend from the back of the head. The sexes are similar in appearance although the males are slightly larger. Black-crowned night herons do not fit the typical body form of the heron family. They are relatively stocky with shorter bills, legs, and necks than their more familiar cousins, the egrets and "day" herons. Their resting posture is normally somewhat hunched but when hunting they extend their necks and look more like other wading birds.
Immature birds have dull grey-brown plumage on their heads, wings, and backs, with numerous pale spots. Their underparts are paler and streaked with brown. The young birds have orange eyes and duller yellowish-green legs. They are very noisy birds in their nesting colonies, with calls that are commonly transcribed as quok or woc.
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Comments (87)
Joyce Dickens
Absolutely superb work Linda; Congratulations on your Best of the Best Homepage Feature in WFS!!
Brenda Bonfield
Beautiful photograph! Congratulations, Linda, on your BEST OF THE BEST OF WFS FINE ARTISTS!
Lesley Evered
A superb photo Linda....Congratulations on being chosen for the Best Of The Best features in Wisconsin Flowers And Scenery Group. Well deserved.
Randy Rosenberger
CONGRATULATION for being chosen as one of our “Best of the Best” artists for this 10 day round on our homepage. It is an honor for me to promote your beautiful pieces of artwork. You are to be highly commended for your talents in the works you have submitted to me for featuring. With this quality of artwork that I love, I will continue to do my best to feature and promote each of you as a fine artist within our WFS group. Happy sales till we meet again!
Robyn King
Congratulations your beautiful work is being featured in 500 Views Share Group & Shared:-)
Robyn King
Congratulations your beautiful work is being featured in 500 Views Share Group & Shared:-)
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the feature archives discussion in the Camera Art Group.