found this juvenile yellow crowned night heron,
Nyctanassa violacea , -
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
at the Topeka Zoo and Conservation Center, I was out taking pictures and working as a docent
had just switched to the DFA 150 - 450 zoom as I approached the pond where the trumpeter swans are.
I saw this small wading bird, tentatively id as a juvenile yellow crowned night heron wading near the shore line going away from my position
I later found out that there is an active nest near the zoo on private property.
cropped and pp
it "struck" several times but only came up with a stick