Glaucous Bittern!

Bittern

Early morning from the viewing ramp, 3 Bitterns including the Leucistic individual gave flight views this morning, though not very good photographic opportunities. 2 Great White Egrets could be seen in the fields, up to 4 Marsh Harriers quartered the reed beds, a Kingfisher, several Cetti's Warblers but no sign of the Penduline Tits, Bearded Tits or Dartford Warbler. 

Leucistic Bittern from the ramp this morning

A run around the marsh with MH was disappointing though we did see a dozen Tree Sparrows, Mistle Thrushes and 31 Bewick Swans at the wind turbines. A short visit to Pett saw the Glossy Ibis by the pool, 9 Brent Geese with 20 Whitefronts in the fields behind, c20 Redshanks and few Curlews,. A stop off at the double bends Scotney on the way back, found the Tundra Bean Goose and 10 Brent Geese among the many feral Greylags and Barnacle Geese.

 Glossy Ibis

This afternoon I spent another couple of hours in a fruitless search for the Dartford Warbler and Penduline Tits at the ramp, only to find a different Dartford Warbler where I parked the car. A late afternoon look from the ramp with SB saw of note 2 Bitterns 1 of which was perched, a Raven flew over. The drake Smew was on the Boulderwall pools at dusk.
The Long-eared Owl was on its usual perch and the 1w Caspian Gull was by the fish huts.

Reed Bunting at Hookers