The original plan was to visit the Ribble Estuary, but after reports of Bittern and Water Rail at the Yorkshire site I decided to try my luck.
Unfortunately Bittern and Water Rail are probably 2 of the shyest birds that can be found in the UK and almost inevitably the search was fruitless!
Still a very pleasant afternoon, although perhaps a little quiet on the bird front.
Highlights were good numbers of Little Grebe, Ruff, Redshank, Lapwing, Teal and Greenshank...
Nice sequence! I never seem to get close enough to greenshank to get a worthwhile image. Well done.
ReplyDeleteBittern are very shy here to! You managed to get very nice images anyway ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks guys.
ReplyDeleteTiger, I can never get as close as I'd like to Greenshank either...These images were taken from a hide and even then I had to crop them!