Herons, Egrets & Spoonbills
Little Egret
Grey Heron
Night Heron
Little Bittern
Bittern
Cattle Egret
Spoonbill
Bittern, Fishers Green, Lee Valley, Essex 8th February
Spent a couple of hours in the hide waiting for this bird to finally show itself it the open and when it did it was as a brief dash across the cut in the reeds only.
Cattle Egret, Vange Marsh, Essex 26th July 2010
Long awaiting and much predicted additional to the local list. More blurred images here
Little Egret, Gunners Park, Essex - 5th March 2008
Little Egret, Two Tree Island, Essex 14th February 2010
Little Egret, Priory Park, Essex - 30th March 2008
A rather unwell looking individual with pasty looking bare parts
Little Bittern, female, Porth Hellick Pool, St. Mary's
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Night Heron, Royal Military Canal, Kent 18th January
The temptation of this long staying and obliging bird only an hour away was to much to resist, it performed very well at times: for more of this bird click here.
Cattle Egret, Porth Hellick Pool, St. Mary's
A Scillies tick. Just like the Little Bittern in the spring I was on St. Martins when this bird was found and had to make a mad dash back to St. Mary's where I saw it for a few minutes from the Stephen Sussex Hide. For more pictures of this bird click here.
Little Egret, Porth Hellick Pool, St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly 11th May 2010
This fine Little Egret had spent majority of its time at Porth Hellick Pool on the far side but for fifteen minutes it flew across to the near side and fed just to the south of the Seaward Hide. It was nervous, always alert to the camera shutter going off but it did make it's way closer and closer to the hide until it eventually decided the may was the place to be and departed.
Night Heron, Two Tree Island, Essex 10th April 2011
This first-summer is the first for the SOG recording area and only the third to be twitchable in Essex with the last being in 1990. More images of this bird can be found here
Cattle Egret, Benfleet Cree k / Tewkes Creek complex, Essex August 2011
Quickly following on from last years SOG first came two this year along Benfleet Creek which were equally distant allowing generally poor images only, more duff stuff here