A BIG thank you and a merry Christmas to Brian Unwin, the weekly Birdwatch columnist in your 7Days supplement.
Following his column of December 4, and after decades of searching the nation’s reedbeds, I saw my first bittern at Cresswell, Northumberland, with much satisfaction.
RA Peel, Marske, Redcar.
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