Yellow-crowned Night Heron

When I first saw this bird, it was in a strange "headdown" pose with the upper surface of the wings exposed to the sun. When I got to a position to get a little better view, it appeared to be dozing in the sun with its wings spread so the lower surface was exposed to the sun. It is a behavior I haven't seen before.

This is very nearly a "100% crop" - it was resized to 800 pixels tall from about 835 pixels. ISO 200, 1/400s, f11, 200mm L. A little PP in Photoshop.

C&C welcome.

Dale

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That is just too weird. Never seen anything like that. He looks like he's meditating.

I beleive he is "sunning" himself. We have lots of these here and I see this quite often, even in the junvies....