butorides (bittern) striatus (unknown)
Sunday, July 29, 1979 — 1:30 pm
Barrington, Illinois — Crabtree Nature Center
Two Green Herons were standing motionless on a fallen tree in the marsh at the end of Bulrush Pond.
I took this photo of a Green Heron on Sulky Pond at Crabtree in May, 2006 — about a quarter mile from where I saw my lifer Green Herons more than 26 years earlier.