Yellow-crowned Night Heron on Wekiva River

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Yellow-crowned Night Heron
This afternoon after work I took a kayak down the Wekiva River for about an hour to see what I could find for my June Challenge (finding as many birds as  you can in one county during the month of June).  It was really fun to find a Yellow-crowned Night Heron nest.  I saw one adult with two chicks (the photo below shows one pretty clearly and a bump for the second. Unfortunately, these are the best looks I was able to get of the birds--a somewhat cluttered background, but these are the first I've ever seen in Seminole County, so I thought I'd share.

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Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Other cool finds along the river were two Barred Owls and an Acadian Flycatcher, both of which were new additions to my June Challenge total.

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  1. Love that fuzzy head on the chick Scott!

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