GREAT BITTERN

Boultham Mere Lincoln, September 2013. Stunning views of the two Bitterns this morning, they took flight from railside and went quite high up circling the lake together for several minutes, they both dropped back into the reeds with one sitting in the open for a while.

GREAT BITTERN

One of the two Bitterns that was flying around this morning, Boultham Mere September 2013

GREAT BITTERN

One distant cold Bittern, stood railside for over an hour. Boultham Mere Lincoln December 2010

GREAT BITTERN

Boultham Mere
On view from hide when we arrived at 8.15am, still on show when we left at 9.30am, you need to look really hard for it in the reeds, watched Preening and Sunning itself, kept moving around so at times only its head sticking up.

GREAT BITTERN

BOULTHAM MERE LINCOLN
a single bird has been seen at this site every winter since the late 70's normally arriving about mid October and leaving well into March upto 3 birds have occasionally been seen in the late 90's to date