The Great Bittern Bonanza
A short drive along the marshland tracks one February morning produced close-up views of at least 15 different Great Bitterns in what was a very small proportion of the entire marshland area.
The birds were often seen well out in the open, stalking along the reedbed fringes and skating on the ice!
The size of the wintering population surprised even the reserve wardens, who had estimated the total number of Bitterns in the Delta to be only in single figures.
After a while we expected to see one peering out from the reedbed every hundred metres or so - and we were rarely disappointed!
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