The Great Blue Heron is here year-round and in quite impressive numbers so for quite a while those were the only wading birds I ever saw. I still remember vividly my first encounter with a Black-crowned Night Heron, and some years Green Herons are all over the place. 2014 was a particularly good year for waders with all the birds on this page being seen multiple times and most of them in a variety of places. The Yellow-crowned Night Heron was a lifer that year.