CAN anyone help 75-year-old Owen Jones? He’s been perplexed by a strange-looking heron-like bird spotted on marshes near his Anglesey home.
He says his memory isn’t quite what it used to be but there’s no doubting he saw something rather peculiar on Malltraeth marshes on Tuesday, around 3pm.
What’s more his daughter, Sheryl Griffiths, saw it too, around noon the same day.
Mr Jones, a former budgie/canary breeder, said: “It looked like a heron but was pure white and smaller than our native heron.
“It was about half-a-mile from the mouth of the estuary, in a water-filled ditch running parallel to a country road.
“I’d be very interested to know what it was.”
Mr Jones, whose son Owen Glyn has taken over family hedge contracting business, believes it might be a foreign interloper brought to Anglesey by unseasonal weather.
Bryn Jones wrote...
Re Andrew Forgave's question. The bird is a little egret, a small white heron more commonly seen in europe. They have increased in numbers over the last few years and I have seen up to 4 of them in the Malltraeth estuary recently.
Posted by: Bryn Jones | December 20, 2007 11:00 AM