Photography Wild Delmarva on 29 Aug 2009 05:56 am
Don’t Bite Your Tongue…

It might be easy to confuse this juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron with an American Bittern. As an adult this bird will be gray with a black cap and back. But as a young heron the camouflage stripes on the throat look very similar to the bittern.
Photograph by Kevin Fleming

on 29 Aug 2009 at 6:07 am 1.Pat said …
Outstanding close-up look at this fellow…..