Any idea what kind of bird this is?

[Wildfish]

Is this a young blue heron or night heron? Just curious, it didn't look like the others hanging around.

 

[Fishidiot]

Looks like a black crowned night heron (a young fella).

 

[NoMoreCornChuckin]

I second that, there is a sanctuary for them on Lititz run, see them often.

 

[Chaz]

I don't think it's an immature bird, I think it's an adult. It could possibly be a yellow crowned night heron given the amount of light color on the head. It's touch to tell from the photo.
Immature bird of both species are heavily barred. Here are links to the two species.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-crowned_night-heron/id

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-crowned_Night-Heron/lifehistory

 

[NoMoreCornChuckin]

Looks like an adult to me, they are smaller than Great Blue Herons.

 

[pcray1231]

I really need to learn my birds. Birds and flowers are weaknesses....

 

[Chaz]

Learn the common flowers, otherwise you'll grow old trying to learn them all. Birds I can help with.

 

[turkey]

Really cool pic. I'd have to agree that this is a Black-crowned Night Heron. I would guess that its an adult and female, based on the plumage being more drab than a male's...but that really is just a guess.

I'm a closet bird nut. At Spring Creek during the Jam, while the fish were not being so cooperative, I was fortunate to see a Pileated Woodpecker directly across the stream from me, and more Orioles than Ive ever seen before.

I'm lost when it comes to wildflowers...at least beyond Phlox. I do, however, now know what poison oak looks like.

 

[Wildfish]

Thanks all,
I'm getting better at paying attention to the birds. There are hatching orioles on my favorite bike trail, and a pair of flickers in the neighborhood. Still learning the rest.

 

[bikerfish]

birds are cool, and they can tell you when a hatch is on!! I know the white flies are on when I see the cedar waxwings waiting on the bridge rail at the rt 19 bridge on the slippery rock.

 

[wsender]

turkey wrote:
Really cool pic. I'd have to agree that this is a Black-crowned Night Heron. I would guess that its an adult and female, based on the plumage being more drab than a male's...but that really is just a guess.

I'm a closet bird nut. At Spring Creek during the Jam, while the fish were not being so cooperative, I was fortunate to see a Pileated Woodpecker directly across the stream from me, and more Orioles than Ive ever seen before.

I'm lost when it comes to wildflowers...at least beyond Phlox. I do, however, now know what poison oak looks like.

At the Jam a few of us were down in Paradise fishing high chocolate milk and we watching a Bald Eagle cruise around the hatchery.

 

[FarmerDave]

I'm gonna guess green heron.

Hard to tell with the lighting washing it out a little bit. I see green herons quite often at my place, and they look similar. In fact, i see them pretty much every day.

I'd definitely say it is one or the other.

 

[turkey]

Farmer D...I thought Green Heron too but I went with the BC Night Heron because of the red eye. I think that the males only have those plumes on their heads during breeding season. I'm no expert...thats just my guess.

wsender wrote:
at the Jam a few of us were down in Paradise fishing high chocolate milk and we watching a Bald Eagle cruise around the hatchery.

I missed that. I apparently missed a lot of stuff. Including a couple taking wedding photos and about 10 rising browns on Saturday.