Matt Mellor has uploaded some photos of a bittern swimming on the Fowlmere Flickr website (best to google it). They were taken at c11.50 from Reedbed Hide, looking left at the pool that we have recently weeded.
Another visitor saw a bittern in flight this afternoon, and two merlins flew past the hide at 4pm.
He has some beautiful shots on your Flickr page! Thanks for letting us know about this.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.