Bird of the Week: Black Crowned Night Heron
May 31, 2006 | 
Author Time for another Bird of the Week installment! The Black Crowned Night Heron is a cool-looking character decked out in a tasteful black beret and “cape”. You might think the blazing red eye is a tinted contact lens, but you ‘d be wrong. The cool factor is completed by two “white, filamentous plumes” which contrast nicely with the eye and back. This one has can be seen foraging for minnows and bugs in a storm pond at York University, but he’ll winter in the southern U.S.
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[...] We met this character a few weeks ago, but this is a much better photo IMHO. During a lunchtime walk, I saw him hanging around a storm pond — what I call a “Fear Factor” pond. He flew off into the trees a minute or so after I had taken some photos of him from the far side the pond. Luckily, he flew up into a tree that I had to pass on the way back out. When I stopped for a few more pictures, he was tap-dancing nervously on this branch, while giving me the Evil Eye, and then he flew back to his fishing hole after I passed by. [...]