More Prairie Fall

I'm not talkative this morning, so I'll just post some photos from Sunday.  It was such a pretty day.

Mountain Bluebirds frolicking about at an old corral

Aspen

Moose Mountain Creek

Gooseberry Lake

There's a juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron  standing in the water

Here's another one, intently hunting near Moose Mountain Dam

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Ack!!! I Am Totally Wrong

My American Bittern post of awhile ago ... well, not a bittern at all.  Juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron!  Thanks for the correction, Guy.

I've adjusted that post a little - like took out the bittern stuff. 

American Bittern - er, NOT

 American Bittern  Botaurus lentiginosus   

CORRECTION:  Black-crowned Night-Heron, juvenile.

This is a juvenile bird as it lacks the black streak on the sides of its neck.  I flushed out 11 young bitterns BC Night-Herons at Last Mountain Lake late Thursday afternoon. 

Black-crowned Night-Heron