I drove back to Holcim Wetlands this evening to look for the Least Bittern I believe I saw this morning and try to get a photo of the TRICOLORED HERON using my 400 mm telephoto lens instead of my 70-300. I ran into a local birder and his son who is also an avid birder. They had seen the heron and ran into a birding couple who also saw it before it flew across the wetlands. In our discussion they asked if there were 2 TRICOLORED HERONS as they thought they had seen 2-- to which I blithely responded "no" and something to the effect this is too rare a species here to have more than one. After they left I spotted the TRICOLORED HERON fly into the distant edge of the reeds and disappear down into them. Then I spotted the 3 Black-crowned Night-Herons and walked towards where they flew to try to get a better look to get the age of all three when I saw the silhouette (now after 8 pm and getting dark) of a water bird that had a very large bill. It was a TRICOLORED HERON and it was quite a distance from where I had watched a TRICOLORED HERON fly to. I had been watching this area and had not seen this heron fly in from the other location. So did I miss the one TRICOLORED HERON fly over or could there two of these rarities??
By the way I saw the Green Heron again tonight--it was perched on a distant long log with a Great Blue Heron on one end and a Black-crowned Heron (originally thought this was the TRICOLORED) on the other end with the Green Heron in between. Nice birds today. SeEtta Moss Canon City Personal blog @ http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com Blogging for Birds an Blooms Magazine @ http://BirdsAndBloomsBlog.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAAUvckrxE2VHk8fTiGd3j3UnuW1a3UMQ%3DW3Fixi%3DQNim1pTY9g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
