{"id":91381,"date":"2026-04-03T13:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=91381"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:07:37","slug":"once-bittern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/03\/once-bittern\/","title":{"rendered":"Once bittern\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

It being a bank holiday, I spent the morning at the Wetland and Wildlife Trust reserve at Welney, and was well rewarded for my efforts.<\/p>\n

There were eight cranes, and a spoonbill, but all of them out of camera range.<\/p>\n

And then there was a bittern, which is one of UK\u2019s most elusive resident birds, usually skulking out of sight in reed beds. We saw it once from the main hide, but then walked further north, and it flew in right in front of us and, quit bizarrely, landed on some reeds, which is odd for such a big bird.<\/p>\n

I grabbed what I had to take a picture, which was my phone, and this is it:<\/p>\n

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That is not the world\u2019s best photo, but any photo of a bittern is good and I was chuffed with this.<\/p>\n

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It being a bank holiday, I spent the morning at the Wetland and Wildlife Trust reserve at Welney, and was well rewarded for my efforts.
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