Pantmaenog Bittern

An interesting sighting sent in by Vicky Nightingale - "I'm not much of a birder (more casual spotter) but I was walking at Pantmaenog (the clear-felled section north-west of Rosebush) earlier today (29th February) and my Springer inadvertently flushed out what I assume could only be a bittern (approximate time 4.35pm). Being a-not-much-of-a-birder my first thoughts were "Uh, a brown and black barred heron?" immediately followed by "isn't that what a bittern looks like?". Flushed from the overgrown fen-like area south of the footpath at approximate OS Grid Reference SN075305 it flew south-south-east towards the village of Rosebush. There's a lot of frog spawn around in some of the pools and streams at the moment so it could have been there feeding on frogs?"

An unusual location for a Bittern it may well be that the food source which Vicky mentions has brought the bird in.