With Brian being away for the week in Norfolk with Sue, Jimmy & I had planned to go out on Saturday early morning.
But after looking at Bird guides and other sites on & off all day friday, nothing seems to be about, so we decide to wait till sunday.
Then late friday night Jimmy checks out the birds sites one more time ,and there is a mega bird reported at Rainham Marsh, a Baillons Crake has been spotted, and the reserve will be opened at 6 o'clock as a large crowd will be there to see it, this is about 3 hours before it normally opens, so a big thank you to Howard & others for putting theirself out so we can try to see it.
Up early & get to Rainham at about 6 ,15am, we are shown to a temporary car park which is already busy.
We walk 10 minutes to the hide, which is packed, this is a big new hide, which is great , we climb over tripods to get to somewhere near a window, the bird had been seen walking about in front of the hide 5 minutes ago.
We manage to get a good view out of the front & side windows, it takes about half an hour for the bird to move into view, I am watching over the back of the reeds there is some movement going on when all of a sudden a Coot sends the target bird up , it's a quick flight across the water & out of sight again.
We now know the where abouts of the bird & wait a good few minutes before it flies up & goes back over to the other side , but this time it is a slow flight & Jimmy & I get a good view of it as it lands, it's a quick view before it goes into the deep reeds.
We wait for another couple of hours, but we don't see the bird again.
So we call it a day & head home, I am writing this blog at 3 o'clock & up till now the bird has not been reported again, if it does show tonight Howard said he will open the reserve again early,
only being 25 minutes away, we will try again tomorrow, to see if we can get a photo of it.
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