Egrets, I've had a few...

Yes, that is a bad pun.  So bad that it isn't the first time I've found an excuse to use it.

Here are three recent Egret photos to at least provide a reason for me showcasing my quite incredible wit.

Migrants arriving, birds posing. Weekly highlights 17/8/2014

It was going to happen eventually, as it does every year. The Swifts leave and then everything else starts coming through (although after a week without any I did see two Swifts on Sunday).  The first Wheatear of the autumn came through the patch on Tuesday, and another on Thursday.  

Ropey shot of cracking bird.

There have been Common Sandpipers kicking about in the distance, but this one was in range length for about 5 seconds.  One shot in focus!

 Amongst the showers I can usually still find Pied Wagtails.  This scruffy little fella was posing a bit on Thursday.

The week nicely rounded off with a session with a Little Egret.  No doubt this will appear on other channels as the days progress...

Some of these photos may, or may not, end up here

Little Egret

In the days of the Observers Book Of Birds, these things were pretty exotic in this country.  I still respond to any proximity with them in much the same way as I would have done back in those days.

Little Egret