Last year our seeing an American Bittern at the Nisqually wildlife refuge took us some effort. This year we’ve got two records, including this bird, on 30 July 2020, that flew across the marsh and landed next to a small, wet open space. Erika took careful note of the landing location, and we easily found the bittern. We were not that close to this bird, which has, nevertheless, assumed an alarm stance—its feathers compressed, its bill pointed upward and body stretched vertically.
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