The call comes from Brian & we are on our way for a drive up the M4 that will take us nearly 3 hours after diverting onto the M40 after the M4 was closed after a car overturned.
After learning that the reserve will be putting on hourly escorted walks down to the sea wall where the bird has been found, we relaxed a bit but still felt a bit of tension as we got closer to the reserve.
We miss the 5 pm walk by a few minutes & along with other birders think why have we got to wait for an hour when the bird could have flown by then.
Then we got lucky when a member of staff turns up just after 5.30 & after paying £10 each he walks us down to the wall where we find many birders stretched out along the sea wall that over looked the dumbles. where after a short wait the Bustard shows when it moves around the long grass at a distance just a head & neck showing .
Over the next 3 hours that is all the bird showed us as it moved about the long grass. I got about ten sighting of the head & neck & have to wait till after 8pm for the bird to walk out into shorter grass to give a whole bird sighting but it was back out of sight after 30 seconds or so.
So well worth the long drive to give us all a very nice lifer.
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| Just some of a very large crowd |
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| If we could of got a closer photo of the bird this is how it looks. |
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| The Little Bustard at Slimbridge Thats why I put the other photo of another bird elsewhere. |
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