Saturday 10th September 2011 - Great White Egret

A nice surprise today considering I was working. Most days I drive down the M1, and just north of the Newport Pagnell Services there is a small river with a lake which is always full of birds so whenever I am passing I normally always have a quick peak down there to see if anything is about. I'm pleased to say that today there was!! Standing just slightly north of the river in a field was a Great White Egret, and despite driving (slowly) on a motorway at the time I got some quite good views of the bird. Not a bad van window tick!!