Around the Pond
Another Creature spotted around our Vernal Pond.
Can anybody tell me what it is?
Around the Pond
My View of Life on the Dock
My View of Life on the Dock
Around the Pond
Another Creature spotted around our Vernal Pond.
Can anybody tell me what it is?
Good Morning Gloucester 
this appears to be a black-crowned night heron
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It’s a Black Crowned Night Heron.
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Possibly a Black-crowned Night Heron … they’re beautiful, aren’t they?
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That’s a black crowned night heron – beautiful birds who are largely nocturnal when they do most of their fishing, but you can occasionally see them during the day. They have a distinct “quork” that they let lose when they take off. They appear kind of hunch-backed and so in silouette are easy to identify. You can see them usually over on Niles Pond.
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Black Crowned Night Heron
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It’s a Midnigth Heron. I see them at Goose Cove sometimes early in the morning.
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Hi Paul–You have a gorgeous Black-crowned Night Heron. I had never seen one until last fall when I was at Niles Pond filming at dawn.
Link to a video I posted last fall–night heron is towards the end of the video: https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/sundown-moonrise-and-sunup-eastern-point-gloucester-video-from-kim-smith/
Link to photos of a mom and juvenile that Joey posted last spring: https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/black-crowned-night-heron-at-the-dock-2/
There are are several more posts on GMG–just search Black-crowned Night Heron–I don’t know how to put links in comments.
Beautiful birds!!!
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It looks like a crowned night heron. We see them fishing in the Harbor almost every night.
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there are yellow-crowned night herons as well, but this is definitely a black-crowned. They breed
on islands offshore and occasionally inland. I think there may be a large rookery on the island off the end of Coolidge Point.
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I think we have enough answers. thanks to all that informed me. 🙂
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it’s a GMG bird!!!!!!!!!
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It’s a Black Capped Night Heron. I used to see them along the Charles river in Watertown. It’s always amazing when they stretch and – wow – they actually have necks.
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Thanks to all that informed me on what it is. Those eyes. those evil red eyes. Thanks All! 🙂
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Very cool, Paul!
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