And I start with Rainton Meadows last month.
Great White Egret.
It struck
Caught a fish
And ate it.
It stood for a while
Preened.
Then gave its self a shake.
Snipe.
The back end of the Bittern that was at Rainton Meadows for a while (this unfortunately was the best I got).
Four-spotted Chaser.
Common Darter.
A rubbish shot of a Brown Hawker but this was the best
I got.
I was looking for the Small Red-eyed Damselfly but
didn’t see any so here is a Blue-tailed Damselfly.
Common Blue Damselfly.
The sixth and final part of our trip to RSPB St Aidan’s. My last Blog was Bitterns in flight however to be able to get into flight they naturally must take off. Here is a full sequence of one of the Bitterns coming out of the reeds and taking off.
If you look very closely you can just make out the eye
of a second Bittern below and to the left of the first.
At times it didn’t look elegant.
And it seemed to be crashing into the reeds a lot
But it did eventually make it out
And as Bob and Paul would say “and away”
As I said in my previous Blog, we saw at least three Bittern while we were at St Aidan’s here are two of them in flight something I have never seen before.
The Black-headed Gull clearly didn’t like the Bittern
sharing its air space.
