Sunday, 16 December 2012

BITTERN

Had a definite sighting of a Bittern on Tregaron Bog today (Saturday). 
The bird was on the water's edge in the nearest artificial lake by the bird hide near the Fflur river. It was about 20 to 30 yards away and did very little for the 10 minutes that we watched it. It was about 4.15 pm and we still had to walk back to Swyddffynnon. 
I have seen a bittern on the bog before but not for a few years now and people said that the birds came west to avoid the cold easterly winds. That is also the weather we have just experienced over the last week. I wonder if anyone else has seen this Bittern or am I the first to report a sighting.
Geraint Hughes