{"id":7033,"date":"2013-01-06T05:03:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T12:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2025-09-21T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:40:42","slug":"juvenile-black-crowned-night-heron-a-winter-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/01\/06\/juvenile-black-crowned-night-heron-a-winter-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron – A Winter Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Young\u00a0Young Black-crowned Night Heron on ice – Nikon D300, f7.1, 1\/640, ISO 400, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve mentioned before that Great Blue Herons<\/span><\/a> stay in the Salt Lake Valley over winter even though the temperatures get very cold and so do some of the Black-crowned Night Herons. I had just mentioned that I hadn’t been seeing the Black-crowned Night Herons when I saw this juvenile flying\u00a0over the\u00a0Phragmites near\u00a0a pond at Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area and then it landed\u00a0on the ice close to some open water.<\/p>\n

\"Alert\u00a0 Alert juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron – Nikon D300, f6.3, 1\/1250, ISO 400, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 357mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Juvenile Black-crowned Night Herons look quite different from the adults in plumage but they have the same general shape. Aren’t those orange eyes brilliant in morning light? And like the American Coot<\/span><\/a> images I posted yesterday from the same session, they both have big feet.<\/p>\n

\"Immature Immature Black-crowned Night Heron – Nikon D300, f7.1, 1\/640, ISO 400, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t see the Black-crowned Night Herons as often in the winter as I do other times of the year so this young bird was a\u00a0lovely treat.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Black-crowned Night Heron photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve mentioned before that Great Blue Herons stay in the Salt Lake Valley over winter even though the temperatures get very cold and so do some of the Black-crowned Night Herons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,321,697,26],"tags":[1533,3981,627,626,4064,4067,4071,4094,3956,3957,4292,4050,30,313,373,4193],"class_list":["post-7033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-black-crowned-night-herons","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-utah","tag-black-crowned-night-heron","tag-davis-county","tag-heron","tag-herons","tag-ice","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-marsh","tag-night-heron","tag-night-herons","tag-nycticorax-nycticorax","tag-snow","tag-utah-2","tag-wading-birds","tag-winter","tag-young"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t