(photos by Hien Nguyen)
The rookery at the Ocean City Welcome Center is home to newly hatched Night Herons… So adorable!
1. Black-crowned Night Heron.
2. Female heron: “What took you so long?” Note that one egg still had not hatched.
3. Male heron passing twig to female.
4. Yellow-crowned Night Herons
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5. While he flew away to look for other twigs, she tidied up their nest.