Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Black-Crowned Night Heron under the Belt Parkway, Jamaica Bay



Sunday evening, at the mouth of the Paerdegat.

I really will write something one of these days. Honest.

Maybe next week. :(

7 comments:

Baydog said...

A picture of a Black-Crowned Night Heron is worth a thousand birds.

It's so Dutch around there, isn't it?ew

Baydog said...

ignore the ew

Pandabonium said...

Nice pic. We have some beautiful Grey Herons here. Do you remember seeing Aku'u in Hawaii? I think I asked you that a long time ago. Anyway, same bird as in your pic, indigenous to the Islands. I loved watching them.

will said...

dutch?

Baydog said...

Yes, Dutch names, due to the settlers.

bonnie said...

Pandabonium, I don't remember those, but I didn't do a lot of birdwatching when I was a kid. I'm afraid that the wading birds I mainly recall seeing were the cattle egrets at the Sumida watercress farm - a wonderful anomaly in the middle of a mall complex at the foot of the mountains where I grew up.

bonnie said...

ps - Nope, I don't think names get much Dutch-er than Paerdegat. Although if my friend Will begs to differ, I would concede the point without protest.