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Thorns of an acacia tree.
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Campion.
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Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax
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It was fishing in the rapids just below the dam.
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Usually it stood right in the stream; fish would practically bump into it.
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Sometimes it would perch on a rock.
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Night heron trying to balance while lungeing for a fish.
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Back on the rock.
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The dam and the heron (lower left)
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A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) came by a little later.
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The great blue liked deeper water for fishing; here he's stopped to keep an eye on me.
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Just after swallowing a fish.
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