I thought I would try my luck with the Great White Egret this morning (Sun), especially as the weather had improved so much.
I arrived at the Kirkby-on Bain LWT hide at 10.20 and on entering it, I saw there was only one other birder inside........intently watching and photographing the Great White Egret which was perched straddling the top of an Alder on the bank just across the Pit to the right of the hide. Thanks to Lincs birder Mark Easterbrook for immediately pointing out the bird, thus enabling me to get some extended and really close views. (Mark said that it was his 4th visit for the bird, so I really hit lucky.
) It stayed at the top of the tree until c 10.30 when it departed in a Westerly direction.Also pleased to meet up for a chat with John Harry and Mark Bibby who from a different vantage point had been watching the Egret leaving its perch on the treetop and fly West.
A Sparrowhawk flashed across in front of the car in Tattershall Thorpe en route there and a Buzzard was a welcome sight flying across the fields on my return to BBH.
Freddy
PS. Apparently, the Kirkby-on Bain bird is one of c 30 Great White Egrets in the UK at the moment and there is already talk on the web as to whether the GWE might actually nest in the UK in the next few years.
