I visited our long-established local yellow-crowned night-heron nesting
site this afternoon. Only one nest was active, but I did find an
eggshell beneath it--an entire half, robin's-egg blue with an extra tint
of green, about the size of a chicken's egg, and what looked like the
rest of the shell fragmented, but still held together. This may not have
been the first egg; pairs of these birds typically have laid 4-5 eggs
each season. The brooding adult was hard to see, but another adult was
perched twenty yards away.
        The site echoed with the songs of yellow-throated warblers, who share
an affinity with the many mature sycamore trees favored by the night-herons.

Bill Whan
Columbus

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