Yellow-crowned Night-heron and Black-crowned Night-heron at Kaufman Lake in Champaign, IL

Carrie and I were looking at the sleepy Yellow-crowned Night-heron right where Ted Hartzler said it would be.





Suddenly, another Night-heron sized bird mobbed it and stole its perch. The Yellow-crowned flew to the left and landed on a stick by the water, and a Green Heron flew across the lake. After a moment, the Yellow-crowned flew back to a perch beneath the second Night-heron, which I recognized to be a Black-crowned Night-heron.



Yellow-crowned looked up at Black-crowned, but Black-crowned ignored Yellow-crowned.



Yellow-crowned turned and they were both standing in the same direction.



A couple of minutes later, they were looking at each other. Black-crowned was looking down and Yellow-crowned was looking up. It was like a stare off.



Then Black-crowned turned around and defecated on Yellow-crowned, and Yellow-crowned flew away to the right, landed on another stick by the water and began to fish.







Later in the evening, after I took Carrie home, I stopped by El Paso Sewage Treatment Center to see a Willet that Ted Hartzler had found there.



Not only did I see the Willet. I also saw this Snow Goose.



Then on my way home, I heard and then saw this Sedge Wren in the John W. English Prairie at Evergreen Lake in McLean County.