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["William Peeples" <wpeeples@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yellow-crown is fairly common locally.  Black-crown, while the more common
of the two most places, is actually somewhat rare in west Tenn., n. Miss.,
e. Ark area.
Rob Peeples
Germantown  TN
P.S.  Riverport Road east of the "pits" is a good place to find
Yellow-crowns in summer, though I have not seen any there yet this spring.
Black-crown has recently been seen at Eagle Lake and at Shelby Farms.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert" <rwf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:33 PM
Subject: [tn-bird] Yellow Crowned Night Heron


>
> Every reference I find to this bird says that it is "uncommon".
> I saw it in West Memphis, Arkansas, just over the river from
> Memphis, Tennessee.
>
> http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=15&n=3893840&e=756188&s=25
>
> I parked near where the Ten Mile Bayou borders a small city park.
> The "bayou" is a medium sized ditch, about 100 feet wide. Its
> water was sluggish but not brackish. The ditch looked neglected
> with a white plastic bucket on one bank and part of a wooden
> chair on the other, and who knows what toxic agricultural
> chemicals mixed in the water.
>
> I peeked into the ditch, and there he was, staring up at me
> in full breeding plumage. Not fifty feet away, a Yellow-Crowned
> Night Heron. I had never heard of this bird, until I saw it today
> and looked it up in my field guide.
>
> It is a smallish heron with red eyes, a blue-gray body and a
> striking black and white pattern on its head. It was standing
> in the mud on the bank in the shadows. It had yellow legs. Its
> neck was stretched high, to spot edible things in the water.
>
> It was Wednesday, around three o'clock in the afternoon when
> I saw it. The weather was overcast with a misting rain, less
> than a drizzle.
>
> Robert Fowler
> Memphis TN
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