I use an alert system which is countrywide to alert me to birds that are locally or nationally scarce or rare. If they are very rare, they are called Mega's. For these birds below, there was and still is at the time of writing this a pair in Ossett West Yorkshire. This is nothing short of a miracle.
The Species is Nycticorax (Latin Name) the bird looks a little grey but is in fact very white with slightly skin tone ish legs. It was fascinating to watch it feeding.
It's a Megga
Ossett, West Yorkshire is not the place you would expect a pair of Black Crowned Night Heron to turn up in the middle of the night.
Birds, even very rare ones can turn up just about anywhere. This pair can't be fussy as they have made a temporary home among all the plastic rubbish and detritus on the river Calder. This was the first time iv'e been to this part of the river and I found it strangely beautiful. You can't help but notice the rubbish though, many tons of it on both banks. To see the bird was a quarter of a mile walk and a climb over a water tank trailer someone has deliberately put in the way of the path. This is presumably to deter walkers, how strange.
Tags: Night Heron
