Made my first visit to the River Lee Country Park today and got some lovely views of bittern on Seventy Acres Lake.
When I got to the hide there was one standing on the ice in one of the channels through the reeds...
But then it walked away from the hide to the end of the channel before flying off to a distant reedbed...
But there was another bird present and this one gave good views closer to the hide...
Although when it went into the reeds it was difficult to keep track of...
I called back into the hide about four hours later before leaving and it was still putting on a display, although by that time it was heavily back-lit.
Dave P.