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Not a great shot, the bitterns head looks strange in this one, I've only put it up because just as I was taking it a water rail happened to run into the reeds behind making quite a rare double.
This was the most obliging bittern I have ever seen. I stood for over 1 1/2hrs watching it and enjoyed every minute!!
As I'm shooting back to my old home in West Sussex tomorrow I thought I'd post a few captures from each month I've been in Bournemouth. Starts with a couple of Sunrise shots from Nov, that month had so many glorious sunrises and sunsets I could never do Justice to them in a few captures I've uploaded.
Then December had to be the Snow, in all my life I've never been on a beach when it was snowing! To walk on the virgin snow along the tide line was special! Again too many captures to do it justice , so one is just showing how it covered the whole beach and another showing the wildlife braving the day. I remember walking around Hengistbury Head Nature Reserve and seeing so much wildlife out and about still foraging.
And January, of course it has to go to the afternoon when I first captured shots of the Bittern and Otter and some more Kingfisher shots all in the space of half an hour in one location. A red letter day for wildlife!
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This was a cool find! He just froze in position looking up! :-D
Very lucky to have the opportunity to see and to photograph the Bittern - so few in the UK - it is a "Red list" species and one of the most threatened.
Yellow Bittern - Ixobrychus sinensis - Китайский волчок
Sri Lanka, Puttalam district, Waikkala, 01/23/2011
American Bittern photographed in Island Cottage Woods in Greece, New York on May 5, 2011.
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Brad Carlson
Photographié au parc de la Frayère de la Rivière-aux-Pins à Boucherville. Image originale : 3888 X 2592 pixels
Pictured at the West Somerset Railway's 2009 Spring Gala is ex LNER A4 No. 60019 "Bittern". It is seen piloting two Class 67 diesel locomotives that had arrived on a railtour bound for Minehead. They are seen approaching Williton on the 28 March 2009.
FIELD MARKS-mottled brown upperparts and brownish neck streaks.contrasting dark flight feathers are conspicuos in flight;note also that wings are longer, narrower, and more pointed, not rounded as in night- heron,-juvenile lacks neck patches. when alarmed,freezes with bill pointing up,or flushes with rapid wingbeats.
There is a story behind this and it goes something like...
Two colleagues from work told me that Bitterns are quite common at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge. Each time my wife and I visited the RNWR I would search and search, hoping to spy one of these fine creatures. None were ever to be found.
On this particular trip I started a joke by cursing these illusive birds. "Those g*d-d*mned Bitterns!" "Rob and Rick are lying sacks of sh*t!" "There are no Bitterns here!"
So imagine my surprise when we motored around a bend in the road and spied this guy!
On came the brakes. Out came the Sigmonster and 7D. "Bang" went the shutter at 8fps!!! I was going to get this guy, no matter what!
Then the evil thought occurred to me: What if Rob and Rick had placed a stuffed Bittern-like animal out in the marsh just to trick me?