Nocturnal Herons in Daylight and More Rare Breeding Birds
Nocturnal Herons in Daylight and More Rare Breeding Birds We arrived at Cley-next-to-the-sea at 1:10pm in hopes of seeing a reported Night Heron, a scarce bird in the UK. It was reported at 11:50am so the chances of seeing it were high. We parked in Small Car Park (location pinned); went up some stairs and stopped in front of the first pond to view East Bank, where the bird was. There was a crowd of people and they said the bird was showing, but it was hard to see and that I had to wait for the reeds to blow to view it. When Phil, one of the twitchers, let me look through his scope, a gust of wind moved the reeds and I thought I saw a grey hump show. Then, after looking harder, I saw it surprisingly well. It was a side-on view and its face showed quite well. This elusive species was ironically one of the easiest birds to connect to on our Norfolk trip! We then made our way to Weeting Heath NWT and arrived there at 2:35pm. We got some info on where the nest was and went over to West Hid...