Hi,

Anyone know what type of bird this is? It landed in my yard a little while ago. I took a few pictures thru a window and then finally went up to the 2nd floor balcony.

Thanks
Paul

Some sort of Egret?

yellow crowned night heron

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology (http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-crowned_Night-Heron/id)

Thanks - I just pulled out my peterson's field guide to try figuring it out. Wonder why he is visiting Conn?

With all the rain, he must have thought my yard was a swamp.

It looks delicious.

Likely very rare this far north but range maps do show it spends time here. In Spring everything is reestablishing its territory or searching for new.
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PS: great pics made id easier
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It's a deep throated swallow
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It's a deep throated swallow
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Grammar is everything: there is a swallow deep in the throat!:rotf2:

cut off it's head and make a plug out of it :uhuh:

"Southern Yellow Headed Pecker Wrecker"