A series of a Black-crowned Night Heron in flight. Well, at the end of flight is a better description.
We had a brush with a tropical storm yesterday, named Elsa. This rookery took damage from a tornado. I have not seen it myself but trees were uprooted, and the juvenile Night Herons were still there sitting in the downed trees and brush. All will be good.
Night Heron Making A Quick Flight
Night Heron Making A Quick Flight
Night Heron Making A Quick Flight
Down here, in the Lowcountry, storms like this are common. Even one of our run of the mill tropical thunder storms drops about 4 inches (10 centimeters) of rain. Up north we would be swimming, here it’s gone in an hour or so.
What I’m saying is to these birds a storm is just another day in the wild.
Port Royal, South Carolina.
That’s scary. Their survival skill in the wild is amazing.
They survive amazingly well. Storms always hit here during the breeding season, a hurricane can sway even the biggest trees. And yet, the nests and young get through it most (not always) of the time.