Steve Fasciana found the Yellow-crowned Night Heron (YNCH) on Friday, May 20, at 8:45 in the morning. To my knowledge and the documentation I currently have at hand this may be only the second record of YCNH in Morris County (the only one I have an accounting of is Pete Bacinski and Rick Radis from the Great Swamp N.W.R. in 2001). Saturday, Tim Vogel found the YCNH at 3 p.m. after not finding it at 7 a.m. I looked for it briefly and unsuccessfully at 7 p.m. Today, Sunday May 22, Tom Halliwell found it at 11 a.m. after initially not finding it.
See Yellow-crowned Night Heron in Denville, 5/22/2011

I met up with Glenn and Eileen Mahler at 1:30 p.m. and after searching for awhile found the bird in apparently the same tree Tom had photographed it in but from a different angle where we could only, and barely, see the head. Eventually the bird left its perch and flew into a tree near the road and then moved to the bank of the river. The bird can be seen from the parking lot of the condominium complex located on Katherine Street which is off of Savage Road in Denville. The bird’s pattern says that if it isn’t easily visible on the river bank then look carefully in the fully leafed-out trees along the river. As the following photos show – when the YCNH is out in the open it is very cooperative. These photos were taken today, Sunday, May 22, 2011.