Least Bittern
The reason we are showing multiple images of this handsome bird is that it is very secretive and we rarely get such prolonged views.
Thanks to its habit of straddling reeds, they can feed in water that would be too deep for the wading strategy of other herons.
When alarmed, they tend to freeze in place with their bill pointing up, turn their front and both eyes forward toward the source of alarm, and sometimes even sway back and forth to resemble wind-blown marsh vegetation.
It was first described in 1789.
2-7 pale blue to green eggs are laid in a platform nest made of both dead and living plant stems and built about a foot above the water.
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