Black-crowned Night Heron

On the 14th when we were driving on the Chief Peguis Trail Highway, when across a pond I saw many Cormorants in a tree. Wanting to get some pictures of them we came back later that day, from around the back of the pond. We talked to a nice lady, and she said the cormorants were there every day. We went to take pictures of the cormorants, and while I was taking photos something flew out from a tree. A heron! I got a picture of it flying, and I was quite sure it was a Black-crowned Night Heron, a lifer, and a considerably uncommon bird. It flew again and I got some better flight shots. It then sat in a tree and we were able to get lots of pictures. We went back the next day to get some more photos, and they were even better than the previous day.

Today my brothers and I biked 37 km, and while we were biking we stopped in to try and see the Night Heron again. We didn't see it, but we saw the cormorants, and a Great Blue Heron.

At the pond there were other birds, such as these immature Hooded Mergansers

Juvenile Hooded Mergansers

Greater Yellowlegs

Double-crested Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

Double-crested Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant 

Double-crested Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

 A friendly cat followed us around while we were photographing.

Cat

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

Cormorants in a tree

 And on our way out a Ring-billed Gull.

Ring-billed Gull

It was quite the find for me, and I got some very nice photos of the Black-crowned Night Heron and the cormorants.