YCNH- Duped Birder Must eat humble pie

[Nate Bond]

If anyone read my last post about Yellow Crowned Night Heron, I now know why I don't post on bird sites.... I need to eat some humble pie.

The photo I had posted was eating at me and I thought it couldn't be true that a YCNH was just hanging out at Wash Park.  It seemed improbable, and as I rode around on my bike for about 15 minutes I became more sure of this.  There are so many dogs off leashes and virtually no good habitat for this type of bird.  

Thanks to google images being searchable I decided I needed to do some more detective work.  Sadly, I found the photo from a posting somewhere else.  I guess I should take it as a compliment that my students are thinking about birds enough to spend some time looking up a rare bird to play a joke on me.  

Oh my, I'm very sorry if anyone looked for it, but I do take solace in the fact that Washington was an enjoyable place to be this afternoon, and hopefully someone gets a good laugh out of this.

Cheers,

Nate Bond

Denver

[Doug Ward]

Nate,

 

Mia culpa accepted, but rest assured the potential of a Yellow-crowned Night Heron just “hanging out” at Washington Park is actually entirely plausible.  Years ago there was a Yellow-crowned at Duck Lake in City Park (with Black-crowneds at the rookery) and could occasionally be seen as out in the open as your student’s picture, so keep enjoying those walks around Washington Park, it is a nice place to spend some time, and you never know.

 

Also, please do keep posting here as everyone’s notes are fun to read…just remember your county references.

 

Good Birding,

Doug

Denver

 

PS – To follow up on Ted’s “Fallout” post, don’t know if y’all have noticed, but there are a huge number of Spizella sparrows of all flavors around today, just need to add a Field somewhere.

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