Hi Tweets,

On Fri, 9 May 1997, Gail Spitler wrote:

>Yesterday an American Bittern landed on my front lawn. It stood, neck =
>stretched, looking like a twig in the air, for about 10 minutes.
>What a surprise!

And the first half of May seems to be when they head north; at least that's
when there's a real jump in the number of sightings around Vancouver BC. Not
a species we think of as a migrant, if we think of it at all; it's usually
only an incident like this that suggests migration by such a secretive bird.

M

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
mprice at mindlink.net