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At Wakodahatchee today with my dear friend Karin (Kokonut on Flickr) who spotted this stealthy creature in the weeds... my first shot was the best, 30 images later I didn't have anything better than this one... kept hoping he'd fly, but no luck there... a big thanks to Karin!
It didn't take long for an admiring crowd to form!
Lots of action and lots of people out there today.
Not the best shot in the world, but this rather secretive bird is The Bittern that can often be heard "Booming" in the reed beds at RSPB Old Moor.
I've been really lucky to have some nice views of these splendid birds.
And have a great deal of nice shots and vid clips. So it's a bit hard to choose which to post......and having literally hundreds of shots.......I haven't had time to go through them all.
So as not to over do them.......I'll do another post later in the week with another vid clip too.
Hello all
I hope you all don't mind me posting a few more shots of the beautiful female sparrowhawk and sublime looking bittern.
I must say to have a bittern mainly out in the open I did take a few hundred or so captures...lol
So I may post some more shots next week :-) if that's ok.
Still have so many pictures and vid clips of these wonderful birds. So thought I'd put another clip up.
An American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) strikes a typical heron pose out in the open which is rather atypical behavior for this secretive stalker. This mid-sized marsh bird normally stays well hidden and perfers to blend into the tall grasses and cattails of wetlands. Their striped and drab plumage makes them blend in so well that they often evade dectection. It was fun to watch this beautiful Bittern as it hunted among the reeds but still came out fairly often along the edges of the cattails. Taken at Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in Dodge County, Wiscsonsin.
another shot from last year. hope to see these back soon : ) thanks for taking the time to comment and things : )
Hurrah my last bittern upload after the session we have recently had trying to capture some of the action.
This is to my mind a classic bittern pose usually confirned to reed beds but a water rail screeched from a reed bed and this bittern adopted this pose and froze right out in the open.
Just had to have a click and who could resist?
The Bittern is one of Britains rarest birds and due to its secretive habits, extremely hard to find. Even when you know there is a a bird about it can be missed due to its ability to blend in with the reeds. The birds feather patterns and colouring match the reeds in which it lives....something I've shown here in this recent image.
Please View On Black to see the bird in much better detail.
Canon 7D, 300mm f2.8 fitted with 1.4x converter. Tripod with Black Widow gimbal head.