Night Heron
Jon Carter rang while I was cooking tea this evening to say there was a Night Heron by the Shaw Street bridge on the canal. The bad news was that it was an escapee, as evidenced by a bright red ring on the left leg. Even so, as it was only three minutes walk away, I toddled down with my scope and new camera to get some pictures: it was worth it just for the spectacle of seeing such an exotic bird is such a grubby place, what with the scaffolding (the footbridge is being repaired just now) and rubbish strewn along the canal bank
