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Black-crowned Night-Heron
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Black-crowned Night-Heron

With earthen cliffs serving as a distant backdrop, I couldn't resist snapping this frame as I floated by this guy in my inflatable kayak (he was standing on a rock in the Pillar Point Harbor). He's a bit drab, but I knew the eye and lores would pop against the surrounding gold, tan, and brown. This is an example where the right light and background can really make an ordinary bird crack!

Pillar Point Harbor, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California, 2/5/20
Canon 600mm f/4 IS II + 1.4x III on EOS 1DX Mark II
1/5000 at f/5.6, ISO 800

  • Rufous-collared Sparrow
  • Brown Pelican
  • Violet-tailed Sylph
  • Sooty Grouse chick/yearling
  • Black-crowned Night-Heron
  • Fawn-breasted Brilliant
  • Clark's Grebe
  • Mikado Pheasant (Taiwan endemic)
  • Black-throated Mango
  • Double-crested cormorant
  • Western Grebe
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • Empress Brilliant - juvenile
  • Great blue Heron
  • Black-crowned Night-heron
  • Indigo-capped Hummingbird
  • Great Egret
  • Sandhill Crane
  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Piping Plover
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