We get blessed around here sometimes.  Well…all the time really…but sometimes we get something different.  A couple of summers ago, a marsh in central Iowa had quite a few Yellow Crowned Night Herons showing up.  It seems the crawdad population was booming here and man they were pulling out some big swamp lobsters!   This bird is more typically found in the Southern US but they are starting show up more in the North when conditions are right.