Saturday, September 02, 2006

Egret in the Docklands

Little Egrets are now fairly common in Southern England but I never tire of seeing them. They still hold some of that exotic, continental aura about them. This year saw the first breeding record for London. For the past few years a bird has regularly turned up in late summer in the docklands of East London at the Lea Valley nature reserve of East India Dock Basin. I took the Docklands Light Railway out there today to try and get some photographs but it was fairly wet and windy.

3 comments:

Katie said...

Fraser, what equipment are you using?

Anonymous said...

I think he uses a Box Brownie.

Unknown said...

after the red kite over Hendon Park 2 weeks ago, Sunny Hill Park was not to be outdone. On a walk round yesteday evening I looked up and saw a little egret flying over! it was going east at about 7:30.