Luck was on my side, when in
June/July of 2010 I found this nest with young Nightherons at Birdrock
in Point Lobos California
State Park. You can clearly see the resemblance with dinosaurs.
On our third visit we saw that there
was only one chick left. We do not know if the other 2 fell out of the
nest or were taken away by a predator. The parent insisted on getting
the chick under her for protection. It took some convincing, but
in the end they both slept, the chick hiding under her.
We
watched the survivor a week later. He was snoozing when we arrived and
it looked like he was not going to wake up any time soon. Once he did he
went to the edge of the nest looking down on all sides. Was he perhaps
looking for his 2 missing siblings?
