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Sadly it looks like the Bitterns here may have left, but I have many lovely memories and a stack full of captures. So I’ll keep posting the odd one or two.
Today seeing my first Brimstone Butterfly of the year reminded me I must look at getting a macro lens……spring and the insect season is nearly upon as.
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When startled the American Bittern stretches it's long neck skyward making itself thin attempting to resemble the surounding reeds, it's eyes are able to pivot allowing it too watch whatever it saw as a threat.
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My daughter spotter our first ever sight of an American Bittern at the Ridgefield Washington Wildlife Refuge.
It was like looking for a needle in a haystack if I found it in the bins then picked up the camera it took ages to locate it again it was so well camouflaged!
Called in to Blashford in Hampshire to see if I could get some shots of a Bittern. It was quite elusive as always, but I managed to get a few shots.
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.
Because this bird is rarely seen because of its camouflage, I was pleased to get this portrait of this remarkable bird in the Florida wetlands.
This Bittern was photographed back in June from the Meare Heath hide on the Shapwick Heath nature reserve in Somerset. I had noticed the Bittern land in the reeds some distance from the hide and decided to wait and to see what happened next. I was amazed when it walked through the reeds and appeared in a small clearing right infront of the hide. I held my breath, thinking that one movement from me would scare off the bird. However, the Bittern was more interested in hunting than anything else as shown by this photo.
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Wait for it... You can read about these bittern photos on my blog at:
natureofaman.blogspot.com/2012/07/bittern-sweet.html
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American Bittern is another difficult bird to see but often when spotted they stand stock still and look like a reed.