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You're a young Bittern., you're a growing bird., You need food!
Yet despite already having a beak like 'dagger' the fishing 'thing' isn't quite as easy as it looks!
So what to do?
How about those large colourful insects?
There's lots of them and they may make for a tasty snack!
'snap'!!
Yes they are rather good....
Would've preferred a nice big fish though!
Give it time young Bittern! you'll learn!
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.
Read more at www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a...
Another visit to our local celebrity Bittern, Viewed and taken from the hide this time as opposed to the visitor centre. So pleased to see it out in the open and improve on my previous shots.
Ixobrychus exilis
This Least Bittern came and checked us out on Monday out at Brazoria NWR while we were checking out some Wood Storks. It was quite a surprise to see him land so close to us. In fact, he was so close that this image is uncropped and is the only one that I managed to get the entire bird to fit in the frame.
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One from the archives. Forest Farm, Cardiff. To see a wider range of images. Please click on the link below.
This photo of a female Bittern on a feeding flight was taken a couple of months ago (not previously posted). She flew so close I struggled to keep her in the frame. It was the first time I had seen a Bittern close up and what an amazing experience it was.
American Bittern
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Bitterns having a hard time in winter when all waters are frozen. This one was looking for fish between the vegetation along a canal. Because of their hunger they need to leave their comfortzone and are more easily found. This one trusted on his camouflage and didn't move when someone with a dog came by....
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American Bittern
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This least bittern was photographed while posing in a marsh in central Florida near the town of Christmas.
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Bitterns Main line boiler certificate will soon run out so, for a final fling, it ran from Kings Cross to Lincoln and back. Before it gets an overhaul it will spend 2015 running at the Mid Hants Railway. It is seen here just outside Spalding on the outward run.
Bittern in flight. swooped in from the right and I was lucky enough to get a 0.5 second bust. I checked the photos and was so happy I nearly scared it away :-)
I have never seen an American Bittern so close. I was hidden behind the reeds, this guy walked his way right up to the reeds... making it extremely difficult to capture. I very slowly moved up to have a clear shot. Glad it did not fly away.
RSPB Ham Wall.
Hearing the male Bitterns booming and not seeing them isn’t that unusual. I was still hoping to see one though, as you do!
Of course, I was busy watching something else, when this one quietly flew out of the reedbeds and across the skyline. Not the best of shots, if I’d caught it slightly earlier the background could have been a lot better… better than nought though!
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3 shots from early February last year. 2 of female Bullfinch @ Sculthorpe Moor & a distant Bittern on local pool
Another shot of the Bittern...Botaurus stellaris, captured late afternoon at RSPB Minsmere Reserve, Suffolk, Englands.
Noticed a group with lenses & binoculars trained on an area in the reedbed, full marks to whoever spotted this pair because they were well hidden.
Lots of Bitterns at this reserve, often heard but rarely spotted.
St Aidan's Nature Park.
Botaurus stellaris
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American Bittern
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