It's still there, and I'm still here!
The first winter Green Heron is still at Red Wharf Bay on Anglesey....and I'm still on an albeit faaaaascinating course in Yorkshire (and I will be for the next two weeks!)
I guess there'll be superdouper shots of the bird at www.surfbirds.com and any local digiphotographer worth his or her salt will have a full gallery of this Yankee, which I understand is behaving like a right show off.
Good job I saw the bird in sunny Scunthorpe a few years back (what an Autumn - Catbird, Pallas's Gropper and Green Heron all in the space of a few gorious weeks), otherwise I'd be seriously suffering by now.
Still I have bushes full of thrushes, Goldcrests and Robins to keep me company, wagtails and geese passing overhead and the odd hunting Sprawk to keep me company.
Would I swap 'em all for the Green Heron????
Daft question.
Eyes to the skies, everyone, eyes to the skies.
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I know this is over a year late, but I was in Conwy RSPB reserve today and said to the Manager "I saw a bittern on Anglesey last year in Red Wharf Bay" Oh no you didn't says he it was a green heron. I am so excited - I am not an experienced bird watcher but do make notes of unusual sightings like the Hoopoe in Gwydir Forest 3 years ago (no one believed me at the time). I THOUGHT this was a bittern as it was the only thing I could match the bird to. I saw it on 29th October 2005 in the mud flats close to the MHW mark. Did it get home again I wonder?
Don't quite know how to break it to you Ros, so let's just say the Green Heron never troubled US immigration again.....