Bittern lifts off when another gets close

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Bittern lifts off when another gets close - Bittern
Otmoor RSPB Nature Reserve, near Beckley, Oxfordshire (January 2010)

Two Bitterns were seen from the second screen on this beautiful sunny morning. They quite often encountered one another when moving around the frozen edges of the northern lagoon. Generally one backed down and flew off to another area.

For more information on this bird species see the following links:
Eurasian Bittern / Internet Bird Collection
Eurasian Bittern / Bird Forum
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species / Botaurus stellaris

Bittern close-up in the reeds at Otmoor


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Bittern lurking in the reeds on Big Otmoor
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Bittern standing still with reeds behind
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Bittern slinking across a water channel
Bittern in classic position on the edge of the reeds
Bittern walking on ice at the edge of the reed bed
Bittern walking on ice at the edge of the reed bed
Bittern takes off from the northern reed beds at Otmoor
Bittern gingerly stepping out onto the ice
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Bittern takes to the air when confronted by another
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