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KAG Yellow-crowned Night-heron - YES

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Fred Fallon

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Fred Fallon

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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:39:28 -0400

A brief early morning visit to the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens found the 
Yellow-cr Night-heron reported yesterday by Warren Strobel still 
present, feeding quietly in the middle of the ponds. This is an adult 
and easily identifiable. It seemed skittish, so I forbore trying for a 
close-up photo.

Several Gr Blue Herons, a Great Egret, and a Green Heron in the same 
place nicely rounded out the Ardeid contingent, reminding us that the 
annual post-breeding wandering of this family is setting in.

Allow me this reminder - those of us birders who have delighted in the 
rarities showing up here and along the Anacostia owe a debt of thanks to 
Dick Hammerschlag and his colleagues at the Park Service and PWRC for 
making the dream of a restored Anacostia marsh a reality.  Bitterns and 
rails are now returning but so far only in migration. Ultimate recovery, 
as far as avifauna, is now possible but not yet guaranteed.

Fred Fallon
Bowie MD