It's a Black-Crowned Night-Heron! Before today I didn't know it existed, and now I have another bird in my Pokedex. Always a good day :) I drove through the Yolo Basin this morning, and he was sitting in a pond right at the edge of the road, so I actually took this photo through the passenger window (rolled down). I've got plenty of him standing and also squawking. And some showing his demonic red eyes. I hardly ever catch a bird taking off like this. That's because I lack patience. I either give up waiting for them to take off, or I somehow miss the moment it happens because I'm not looking through the view finder at that second. This time I could tell he was about to take off and caught it...although with a little bit of lag time. This was as quickly as I could press the shutter release. Afterwards I remembered that I had my camera set so that if I kept the shutter release pressed, the camera would take multiple photos. That's a setting that I regrettably never remember to use. I also wish that he took off in a different direction. I guess this view shows his nice little jacket. And he's got this feather string coming off the crown of his head that you can sort of see too.
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