[birdky] Black-crowned Night Heron at Veteran's Park, Lexington

About an hour before sundown, I was walking along the West Hickman Creek in 
Veteran's Park, Lexington, and spotted an immature Black-crowned Night Heron.  
It was just hanging out in a tree (on the west bank) which leaned far out over 
the creek, downstream of the walking track bridge, closer to the southern 
boundary of the park than to the brige. We stood regarding each other for a 
long while before I quietly walked away.  It was pretty content to let me stand 
there for a while and to let me walk by.  
   
  Since this is my first ever posting to birdky, I'll go back in time and 
mention a few highlights for me at Veteran's Park, one of my favorite places to 
just be in nature when I don't have time to go very far.  Last week, there were 
several Black-throated Green Warblers flitting around the trees along the 
fairway of a disc-golf hole, one just in the woods behind the back ballpark.  
Late in the summer, I identified by voice a White-eyed Vireo, but I never could 
spot it visually.  Other birds (in no particular order) I've identified there 
are : Red-eyed Vireo, Brown Thrasher, Eastern Towhee, Common Yellowthroat, 
Tufted Titmouse, Song Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Belted Kingfisher (couldn't spot 
it but I'm 99.9% sure by voice--every time I've heard one it has been on the 
Hickman upstream of the park's walking brige), Downy Woodpecker, Yellow-Bellied 
Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Indigo Bunting, Carolina Wren, House Wren, and 
others that you would expect in a wooded park.
   
  Best birding wishes,
  Ben Albritton
  Lexington, Kentucky

                
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