Like the Murphy's: I'm not Bittern!

Things are beginning to look up at Strumpshaw! A shortish walk and an hour in Fen Hide produced all the usual suspects: Nuthatch, Otter, Kingfisher, a close Bittern fly-by and maybe a dozen Marsh Harriers. A patch year tick came in the form of a flock of a dozen Pochard. Sad to see just a single Mallard duckling left from last week's brood of five....