We all set out on another venture to find the Bittern, and to give me extra luck of a sighting my Mother bought me a Bittern pin. With all hopes high we set off to our first hide, the Tim Jackson Hide. As we walked in and sat down I saw a distinctive black bird in the tree, for a second I thought it was another Marsh Harrier, so we asked a lady fairly close to us what it was and the she replied, "a Crow", We all laughed. Nothing much was seen at Tim Jackson. So then we went back to the Griesdale Hide hoping for the best, but as per usual, no Bittern. The only thing we really saw was a flock of geese fly over. So then we did a 400m walk back to the start and on the walk back we saw 3 lovely birds, one of which was a Marsh Tit and the other 2 were Bullfinches. After we had studied them for a while we decided to do our longest and last journey that day. So we set off on our 1km journey to the last of the hides, The Public Hide. On the way to this hide we had our eyes peeled for the Bearded Tit, but we had no luck with that. We eventually got the the hide and walked in. As I sat down I noticed the Heron perched on a branch but it was no Bittern. Feeling down about yet again not seeing a Bittern I stared blankly into the reeds hoping for a glance of one. A woman close by shouted, "Bittern!", and as my Mother and my Grandma both expected I was over there in a flash. I could not see it myself so the woman was kind enough to let me look through her field scope to see it. Finally after 8 years of bird watching I had finally see the dastardly thing! And what made it even better was that it leapt of the floor and swooped across the lake. I was feeling ecstatic. My two next objectives are to hear the Bittern booming and to see the Kingfisher. Overall this was the happiest bird watching experience ever! 
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