Re: [SBB] (out of area) bird ID help?

[Mark Bohrer <[[email protected]]>]

Chuq:
Without more resolution in the image, it could be a very gray 
black-crowned night heron. I can't tell for sure if the eye is red. 
The legs are light-colored - hard to say if they're yellow. The front 
is a bit gray for a night heron - compare here:
http://tinyurl.com/rfh92

** But I think it's more likely a great blue heron scrunched down. 
I've seen 'em do that before:
http://tinyurl.com/hfeny


At 10:59 AM 5/16/2006, you wrote:

>Just looking for a quick sanity check here. this is out of area, but
>I'm going over my photos from my trip, and this is strange..
>
>http://chuqui.typepad.com/teal_sunglasses/IMG_3816Version2.jpg
>
>down on the seaward breakwater of Dana Point Harbor, I ran into a
>fairly large flock of brown pelicans. I took some general shots of
>the group. Looking at them, I ran into the bird on the right. my
>first reaction is "escapee stork", but is that a great blue with the
>feathering and it's neck pulled in? It certainly wasn't what I was
>expecting to see....
>
>In other "what doesn't belong here" birds, when I birded the bait
>barge at Dana Point, I ran into all of the normal suspects -- various
>gulls, black crowned and great blue herons, a couple of egrets -- and
>one male peacock in full display.
>
>go figure.
>
>(FWIW, I went and birded the newport beach back bay, dana point
>harbor, oceanside marina, and a day and a half all over Morro Bay,
>including spending some time watching one of the Peregrines that have
>nested up on the rock... I'll write it up and post a link soon; if
>you've never birded Morro Bay area, it really rocks)
>
>
>--
>Chuq Von Rospach, Architech
>[[email protected]] -- http://chuqui.typepad.com/

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