This photograph was taken by Philip Giles from the Peacock Tower of the WWT's London Wetland Centre this August. 

It shows a corncrake - Philip's first ever! - in a heron's beak.

How amazing!  I would say there is practically no chance that you would see a corncrake at this site even if there were several of them skulking around in the grass (which there almost certainly never are!).  So for a heron to catch one, wave it around and for it to be photographed so clearly is just, I'll say it again, amazing!

I was pleased to see that the corncrake wasn't ringed - otherwise I'd be worried about whether it was a released bird from the Nene Washes.

Amazing!

 

 

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