A juvenile glossy ibis was found on Sunley's marsh late yesterday afternoon. I
didn't have enough time to get there yesterday before the reserve closed, but
we made sure that we were onsite and waiting at the door when the reserve
opened this morning. Good job we did, because although the bird showed on and
off, it was definitely more off than on, and most of the time it was either
distant at the very back of Sunley's, half hidden by the vegetation, or
completely out of view.
However, at about 10am it did show very well about half way out and in full
view on Sunley's for about 10 minutes before flying off and landing out of
view again at the back of the marsh. And there it stayed, unseen for over an
hour.
Then at 11:15 it was flushed by a marsh harrier and flew away high, across the
mere and over the reedbed and was lost to sight. It was not seen again until
about 16.30 when it was apparently back on Sunley's, though we had long gone
by then.
Glossy ibis was a site tick for me, bringing the total number of species that I have seen at Martin Mere to 191.
This migrant hawker was near Harrier hide.
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