Black-crowned Night Heron

Jill Heistein has been telling me about her daily walks to the picnic dam across the road from her house for many months now.  She sees a wide variety of birds there including weavers and water birds.  Recently she was lucky enough to spot this Black-crowned Night-heron while out walking with her grandson, Oliver, who took this lovely photo.

I have never seen this bird in Franschhoek so will be keeping a beady-eye out for it.  Perhaps we can have a little gathering at this picnic dam one day in Spring.