There are two birding cliche's that strike fear into me when I'm going to see a rare bird, they are " It's showing well" and "It's guarenteed".
Well on the walk down to the riverwalk hide at Ladywalk today I had both of these said to me within the space of 10 minutes.
So it was with a heavy heart that I opened the door to the riverwalk hide, only to be told that the Bittern had been showing well upto about 5 minutes ago.
Never being one to give up easily I scanned the reedbeds for about 5 minutes and then not one, but two Bitterns appeared on the ice by the waters edge.
I frantically snapped off a few photo's and then enjoyed really clear views of these normally very hard to see birds.
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