Black-crowned Night Heron
A photograph of a Black-crowned Night Heron in breeding plumage photographed at a rookery in Southern N.J.. The herons, egrets and other waterbirds birds that are nesting at the rookery area are well protected. The location is in a section of wetlands below a causeway. Where the causeway dellines at almost its end, there is a fenced viewing area where one can stand and look across and down at the various trees and shrubs where the birds are nesting. Most of the nests are well hidden in the tree branches and can't be seen other than glimpses of the white or gray birds. When I was there, the time was mostly spent watching the birds fly out of the nest locations and back or to squabble with each other At times one would briefly perch close enough to get a close up photo. The two nest images that I posted were the only two that I was able to see. Camera with 150-600 mm lens was hand held and images are slightly cropped.
