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To the Beauty of Birds

The first photos of the Black-crowned Night Heron Nicticorax nicticorax were taken at the Arboretum, Arcadia, CA. We were sitting on the shore and it flew down and literally sat next to us in mid-morning.

Photo 1600 of a Black-crowned Night-heron at night. Almost every night for the last four years of coming to Honokeana Cove on Maui this bird sat on a rock on the beach, in almost total darkness, waiting for fish. My little point and shoot was never able to produce a good photo. Thus, when I returned in 2010 with a much better camera, I was anxious to try again. It required a powerful Canon Speedlite 580EXII – and voila, there he was!

Later at the Kanaha Pond National Wildlife Sanctuary I saw a Black-crowned Night Heron sitting at the edge of the pond in daylight (5635).

Photos 2004 and 1967 were taken at the Lagoons Golf Course in Kawai, HI. Photo 1967 is of an immature Black-crowned Night Heron.
The 01122 photo of a Black-crowned Night Heron in flight was taken in the salt marshes of Cape May.

Black-crowned Night Heron