I searched the Prospect Ponds Natural Area in Fort Collins today (Sept 19)
after seeing a report of a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron on the ABA Rare Bird
Alert and luckily, I found not one, but two of them. I found them in some
cottonwoods at edge of Merganser Pond which is the northern -most pond o
Cobirders,
An adult YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON is on an obscure pond off Blue
Spruce Dr. (e. side of the rd.) and Willox. First reported yesterday
by Dave Elens it is still present today. The pond is visible from Blue
Spruce looking east across an empty field directly across from a brown
