Today (7:30-8:15 pm) I went down to the Boat Lake in Patterson Park to check out reports of a pair of immature Black-crowned Night-herons hanging out. Immediately on my arrival, I found one of them, looked like a 2nd year bird, perched in the dead branches on the east side of the lake. I circled the lake looking for the other bird, and I was about to give up, but then I finally located it. Only, it wasn't a Black-crowned Night-heron. It was a juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-heron. He was by a dead log on the west side of the lake, feeding by walking and hopping along the bank. 
    A full list of birds from tonight's excursion follows:

Great Blue Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-heron 1
Yellow-crowned Night-heron 1
Mallard 16
American Kestrel 2* 
Ring-billed Gull 3
Herring Gull 1
Downy Woodpecker 1*
Northern Flicker 1
Chimney Swift 30
Eastern Phoebe 1
Eastern Kingbird 3*
Great-crested Flycatcher 2
Barn Swallow 5
Bank Swallow 1*
Warbling Vireo 1
Common Grackle 10
Red-winged Blackbird 7*

* Indicates that at least one bird of this species was only heard

Mike H.
Baltimore City 

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