My daughter and I decided to drive seven hours up to Myrtle Beach to visit my parents who were renting a house there. We had a fun weekend. The last morning before we left, we had a couple hours to do some birding. So my father and I went over to the Huntington Beach State […]
Tag: Yellow-crowned Night Heron
![Yellow-crowned Night Heron on Wekiva River Yellow-crowned Night Heron on Wekiva River](https://scottsimmons.smugmug.com/DailyShoots/2013/06-18/i-9LX2zzS/0/L/_MG_5029-L.jpg)
Yellow-crowned Night Heron on Wekiva River
This afternoon after work I took a kayak down the Wekiva River for about an hour to see what I could find for my June Challenge (finding as many birds as you can in one county during the month of June). It was really fun to find a Yellow-crowned Night Heron nest. I saw one […]
![Emperor of the Glade Emperor of the Glade](https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Night_Heron_0703102c.jpg)
Emperor of the Glade
Searching out rumors of light, a Night Heron slips past evening’s commotion, ignoring the hot and confused air, emperor of the glade. • Yellow-crowned Night Heron | Nyctanassa violacea
![Birds with "Blown Eyes" Birds with “Blown Eyes”](https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/blown-eye-american-oystercatcher-mia-mcpherson-3057.jpg)
Birds with “Blown Eyes”
Because I am a bird photographer I get to see and photograph our beautiful feathered friends, learn their habits and behaviors and sometimes I get to take a look at unusual conditions in the birds themselves. The Yellow-crowned Night Heron above exhibits what I and other bird photographers have come to call “blown eye”. Both […]