Yesterday we had sightings of a brand new bittern. You may remember a few months ago, we had a female (we think) bittern released on site by a local wildlife rescue organisation, which was rung before its release. This lovely photo below shows that this bittern has no ring, so hopefully we are now accommodating 2 on site. Another popular bird on site at the moment is the water pipit - the photo below was originally thought to be a rock pipit (which we last had here in 1983!) but now a few expert eyes have seen the photo, they've agreed it is a water pipit. It caused some great Sunday morning debates on twitter!
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Photo credits: Ravi Prakash Paratharaju