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As a break from butterflies and dragonflies, here is an oldie of a Bittern...Botaurus stellaris at Minsmere Nature Reserve, Suffolk, England
More snow last night, enough to cover my tracks in the gdn so now up to about 6 inches - 150mm. Not gone out again & nothing coming to my feeders of any note. Unloading some unposted Bittern pictures from 2012. Had never been so close to a Bittern
RSPB Brading Marshes, Isle of Wight
Not a great photo but it is a Bittern and I've been waiting a very long time to get a half decent shot of this bird. I know there are at least two of them on the Marsh because I've seen them but they are very rarely seen, let alone photographed, so I'm actually really pleased with this shot.
Red Deer (Cervus elephus ) Love it when the unexpected happens, this old girl came wandering around the edge of a pond I was watching for Bittern. No Bittern but a pleasant encounter.....
What can I say on a roll great kingfisher earlier in the week and now a bittern out in the open.....
I sat in a cold hide for 4 hours awaiting a site of the secretive and elusive Bittern,initially with no luck.I gave up and left the hide only to be told a short time later that 2 Bitterns had just been spotted there.I quickly returned and got some close views of this enigmatic bird as it moved through the Reeds,in front of the hide.
Taken at Slimbridge ,Gloucestershire
This tiny guy is about as elusive as the sora. It lives almost totally in the reeds and marsh plants of the wetlands. The long neck allows it to catch its food while moving around on the reeds and plants without getting its feet wet :).
On this occasion, however, the bird flew into the foliage right as i was standing close by and allowed me to find it down in the plants. Photo taken at the Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands, Viera, Florida.
Least Bitterns are a favorite subject not just because of their beauty, but because they are so challenging to get in flight. I haven’t yet gotten a good sense of when they are about to fly, although they often display a pattern of catching a small fish and then moving on. It’s like their cover is blown and they have to go hide somewhere else. They are a small bird, which are listed as 13” tall, but I think that’s when they stretch out their magic neck. Normally I’d say they are about 6-8”. Quite attractive, the male, shown here, has more contrast with those dark wing feathers. I caught this one just as it was making a landing to a new fishing spot. (Ixobrychus exiles) (Sony a1, 400mm lens, f/2.8, 1/3200 second)
I was begining to think I wouldn't see a Bittern in 2020 but this one calmly walked out of the reeds across in front of me. To be fair it's not been an easy year as we all know, so it was good to see this one today.
a quiet minsmere we went straight up to island mere hide as they were reed cutting in front of bittern hide and it turned out to be the only sucsessful hide
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Bittern - Botaurus Stellaris
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Taken a few weeks ago!
Least Bittern
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Great Blue Heron.
Between 39 to 52 inches long with a wingspan of around 5 feet 10 inches. A common, large mainly grayish heron with a pale or yellowish colored bill. It is often mistaken for a Sandhill Crane but flies with its neck folded and not extended like the Sandhill Crane. In southern Florida an all-white form, the "Great White Heron", differs from the Great Egret in that they are larger with greenish-yellow legs rather than the black legs of the Great Blue Heron.
Their habitat includes lakes, ponds, rivers and marshes.
They breed locally from coastal Alaska, south-central Canada and Nova Scotia south to Mexico and the West Indies. Winters as far north as southern Alaska, central United States and southern New England. Also in the Galapagos Islands.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.