Coyote Hills Regional Park, Fremont, CA

Little Bittern (Juvenile), Rondevlei, Western Cape, South Africa.

My 1st little bittern, sighting and photo

500mm + 1.4x on beanbag

Conversion DPP, NR, sharpening, curves & saturation in PS.

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Cummington Fairgrounds area, Cummington, Hampshire, MA

Southwest Area Park, Baltimore MD, late-March 2011;

Went to Suffolk over the weekend, stopped off at Minsmere and was lucky to capture this beautiful bird

Bittern - Botaurus stellaris. I'd heard the Bittern booming, then noticed the top of the reed bed moving, then out he flew!

Circle B Bar Reserve, Polk County, Fl.

Found the American Bittern creeping through the grass.

Taken at Old Moor behind the Bittern Hide

North Marsh, Tophill Low N R,

East Yorkshire

Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge

Chambers County, Texas

This is a normal resting posture for a Least Bittern.

Bittern, Glos UK, December 2011.

Taken where I now live [Sun City Lincoln Hills]. A community of 7,500 homes!! With 24 miles of nature trails and full of wildlife which I photograph on an almost daily basis.

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RSPB Minsmere 29-04-15

Zmudowski State Beach

Came across some old files from a year or two ago when the bitterns started to come to the London Wetland Centre. Sadly, I used to shoot jpeg then !

Almost missed this little guy

That's how well he blended in

North Lakes, Brisbane QLD.

July 2014.

Minsmere, Suffolk, 23rd June 2014.

Taken on 3/5/09 at the Viera Wetlands in Viera, FL.

American Bittern at Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge

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UK March 2013 Botaurus stellaris

A little poser.

Luzon

Philippines

January

2011

Bittern

Bittern in flight

Lago Frassino

Here's a bittern, an amazing bird we had chance to meet last winter. There is only a small group of people in Poland who had ever chance to photograph this bird so I was very excited when quite unexpectedly we met him on Long Island. Obviously it was my girlfriend who saw him first, and it took me good while before I noticed this guy performing his deceptive trick. It was even more difficult for my camera. Autofocus was running back and front unable to identify the subject where it could set focal plane. I took a series of shots but this was the only one that came out sharp

American Bittern

please see Suffolk April 2014 album. www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/sets/72157644325620984/

Bittern, Fen Drayton RSPB, Cambridgeshire, January 2012.

Bittern

Ixobrychus minutus

Bittern

Adult @ Satay by the Bay

Amwell