Around 12:30 p.m. today, I found an adult Yellow-crowned Night-heron at Sugar River FP in northwest Winnebago Co. The bird was in the swamp which is inside the one-way loop road in the river bottom forest. I watched it catch and eat a crayfish. I don’t know if any YCNH have been seen there since Memorial Day weekend–at least, I haven’t seen any posts. If anyone goes there and sees one or more, particularly if you see immatures, please post those sightings. Thanks.

Phil Schwab and I were stationed at Nygren wetland this morning for the Wildflower Weekend. Although the birdlife seemed sparse, species-wise, there were a few highlights: An American Bittern flew over at a distance, and kept going, over the observation deck and toward the north. A Bald Eagle was over the Pec River to the SE, a pair of juvenile Pied-billed Grebes was in view most of the morning, and a single Solitary Sandpiper was out on a small mud flat.