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Taken on a sunny morning in Suffolk. Difficult lighting and a heavily cropped image. This is the first Bittern image on my photostream, as the previous images I have taken, have been far too distant.
I made a trek to Sierra Valley a few days ago and ran across this American Bittern that was close to the edge of the road. We photographed this fella from our car as he posed still like this for a couple minutes. Couldn't have asked for better light!
Viera Wetlands, Melbourne, FL
Linda accidentally flushed the bittern when she was walking down the road bordering the pond. The bittern flew into an adjacent tuft of grasses. We watched the bittern and after about 10 minutes, it started to look very alert and stretched out its body. We got our cameras ready and it flew low to the place it had originally been. We were ready with our settings and we got the shot. My first time getting an in-flight image of an American bittern. Now, on to the least bittern!
The artwork by Will Young depicts Bitterns at the RSPB Leighton Moss reserve.
It was permanently displayed at Carnforth Railway Station, Platform 2, Lancashire, UK.
Sponsored by Lancaster and Morecambe College, The Furness Line and the RSPB.
In 1997, this bird was on the brink of extinction in the UK, with only 11 males left, but thanks to dedicated conservation efforts, it had increased to 167 males in 2017.
As well as being rare, they are hard to spot and elusive, as they don't have bright blue and yellow plumage.
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 St. Aidans Natue Reserve.
The Bittern is a thickset heron with pale, buff-brown plumage covered with dark streaks and bars. It flies on broad, rounded, bowed wings. A secretive bird, very difficult to see, as it moves silently through reeds at water's edge, looking for fish. The males make a remarkable far-carrying, booming sound in spring. It's very small, reedbed-dependent population make it an Amber List species. It is also a Schedule 1 species, meaning it's illegal to intentionally recklessly disturb them.
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Bittern - Botaurus stellaris. I'd heard the Bittern booming, then noticed the top of the reed bed moving, then out he flew!
I spotted this Bittern as we were driving along the Harty Ferry Road, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, on 02/01/26. A great start to the year!
Bittern - Botaurus Stellaris
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This was another photo of a bittern from Potteric Carr a few weeks ago. Not sure whether it was the same bird as before as it was later in the day.
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One from yesterday. The Bitterns have been more elusive this winter. I have been getting glimpses of them in the reeds but not showing much in the open. I got lucky yesterday when this one crossed the channel.
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Out for the day now it's 4am, will catch up later weather permitting I get back home.
Bittern - Botaurus Stellaris
The bittern is a thickset heron with all-over bright, pale, buffy-brown plumage covered with dark streaks and bars. It flies on broad, rounded, bowed wings. A secretive bird, very difficult to see, as it moves silently through reeds at water's edge, looking for fish. The males make a remarkable far-carrying, booming sound in spring. It's very small, reedbed-dependent population make it an Amber List species.
It is also a Schedule 1 species.
Males are polygamous, mating with up to five females. The nest is built in the previous year's standing reeds and consists of an untidy platform some 30 cm (12 in) across. It may be on a tussock surrounded by water or on matted roots close to water and is built by the female using bits of reed, sedges and grass stalks, with a lining of finer fragments. The eggs average 52 by 38 mm (2.0 by 1.5 in) and are non-glossy, olive-brown, with some darker speckling at the broader end. Four to six eggs are laid in late March and April and incubated by the female for about twenty-six days. After hatching, the chicks spend about two weeks in the nest before leaving to swim amongst the reeds. The female rears them without help from the male, regurgitating food into the nest from her crop, the young seizing her bill and pulling it down. They become fully fledged at about eight weeks.
UK breeding:
80 males
UK wintering:
600 birds
Europe:
21 - 29,000 pairs