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Bittern is back

1 min read   •   12 December 2014

Heron hide

A bittern was seen again on deep water lake after a two week absence. It was feeding in the line of vegetation on the right hand side of the lake as viewed from the heron hide until a grey heron chased it off causing it to relocate to the Bittern reed bed.

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