Nocturnal hunter…
Cotman watercolours tubes, Faber Castel Pastel pencils on Saunders Waterford 300gsm 310×230 Cotton Satiné High White paper This heron species had been on my want-to-have list for a while, both for photographing and for painting, the Black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax). I can check this off my list now. It is one of the smaller herons, around 62 cm. A long, long time ago they existed in large colonies also in the Netherlands. But nowadays they are rare in the…