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A juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron while doing it's morning preening along the marshy river. I wasn't going to photograph the juvenile YCNH since he was on the post, but he stayed and stared so long I couldn't resist. I've noticed many of the younger birds while still very alert, seem more tolerant than the adults. I don't think he saw me for a long time. The tides have been higher than normal, I wondered if that is why so many of the younger ones were coming out of the marsh to land. A Green Heron flew up near by it before I left the river.