brave the snow and ice this weekend and you may just be lucky to spy the elusive bittern (pictured). rangers from the Lee Valley Park will be leading a bittern-spotting walk through the marshes of East London. “warming drink and biscuits” are promised, but you may not be so lucky on the bittern front – they’re among Britain’s rarest birds because of loss of their reedbed habitat through drainage
_image: Russell Spencer / RSPB
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A great picture of one of my favourite creatures. I know every comes and goes but it makes me sad to see these kinds of things barely surviving. Dodos and the Tasmanian Tiger do the same for me.
Comment by david on Feb2010 at 1:05 pm
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