In other skittish-birds-being- oddly-accomodating news, here's the black-crowned night heron I caught playing peek-a-boo with me from the bushes this morning.

(There was also, every fifteen minutes or so, a series of juvenile night herons that soared over the river--as though someone were standing at the far end of the trail shooting them out of a cannon.)

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