Little Bittern & only 20 minutes from home.

What a really lucky tick. A text from Brian around 2 o'clock See's us picking him up & flying up the A10 to Amwell  for the Little Bittern that had been reported a couple of times on bird news.
We arrive without hitting any traffic & head for the view point, only 2 birders here but they point us in the right direction.It's a longer walk then we anticipated but not to long & we are soon standing with a small group & put onto the Bittern the other side of the river sitting in a tree above a large concrete block.
We get a great view as it sat in the tree,but we soon realise how lucky we have been when after 5 minutes the bird drops down from the tree & then flies up & away out of view not to return for the next hour that we stayed looking for it.
The only down side of the trip was really bad traffic coming away from Amwell & then only a mile from home in Buckhurst hill it takes us over an hour to reach my house because the traffic lights had gone on the blink.
But a small price to pay for another really good year tick. Year total now up to ( 276 ).

The Amwell Little  Bittern

The Little Bittern