Yellow-crowned Night-heron, wet and bedraggled, standing in lee of a building at the Station.  Following gales and hurricanes, it is not unusual to find an "arrival" of various migrants and vagrants.  Birds found after a few days of heavy winds and rain in mid-October 2002 included a Green Heron, a Little Blue Heron, a Snowy Egret, and a Great Egret, as well as this soggy night-heron.  During the same period, a Great Blue Heron and an unusual number of Gray- cheeked and Swainson's Thrushes arrived.

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