Arse stuck at work!! and a Blowout?!................
Two photos of the Little Bittern at Cossington Meadows LRWT. (copyright of Jim Graham). As usual after taking a week off from work, and back to work on the Monday the megas turn up! Firstly, Jim Graham found a Little Bittern down at Cossington Meadows, the first live sighting in Leicestershire period and a mega tick for the local patch. But as I was stuck at work I couldn't do anything about until the next day at the earliest. So to cut a long story short I spent the next two days at this site trying to re find the Bittern, but as usual the bird had probably flown the previous night? (I did however get a Soar Valley Tick though in the form of a Barn Owl hunting over the swan meadow, which was small compensation!). Following this two days later after I checked out Rutland Water for the Red-throated Divers and a variety of wildfowl in the north arm( Whooper Swans and Common Scoters ), I had a major blowout on my front left tyre driving towards Preston village on my way to Eyebrook...