Purple Heron.

It's off to Ouse Washes in Cambridgeshire to try to connect with the Baikal Teal seen here yesterday.
We walk down to Stockdale Hide that is the third hide down the track & is a fair old walk.
A few birders in the hide have had no luck in locating the Baikal Tern.
So we settle down to scan the water & find 2 Garganey,a large flock of 10 or more Greenshank plus Avocet & a lot of usual birds but after 3 hours we give in with no sight of the Baikal. A Marsh Harrier put a whole lot of the birds up & the Baikal was not seen with them.So that's it. A Black winged Stilt is seen from the next hide down the track.
So with no ticks for the day we head off to Burnham Overy in search of the Purple Heron that had parked up there.
Parking on the bend we set off on the walk towards the sea wall,a single birder had a scope up over looking the fields,he has not got the Heron & tells us that it had flown away over the fields, so not looking good,the day is not getting any better on the bird front.
Then out of the blue the Heron is spotted over on the second field behind a row of bushes, not the greatest view but after the day we have had a view is a view.On the field to our rear 2 Whimbrel are seen feeding.
Things get better when we have a Barn Owl fly along the river towards us for a really great sighting of a real favourite.

Long way off but  the Purple Heron is found

What a bird.