The Bittern

The Bittern is part of a series commissioned byFuture Places Centreat Lancaster University in collaboration withLeighton Moss RSPB.

With many thanks to Jarrod Sneyd, RSPB Leighton Moss, for embodying this Bittern.

"For me, they just bring joy, particularly when the atmospherics are right. You can be in Leighton Moss, or nearby in Silverdale, for example, where there's been five or six booming male Bitterns, and the sound echoes and reverberates. If you were to try and write it down and capture it, it's constant, it's impossible to do. And so you've got this cacophony of Bitterns booming all around you and echoing and bouncing. And it's actually just incredible when you get that. It's not like that every morning or every evening."Jarrod Sneyd, RSPB Leighton Moss

Producer, Presenter:annabel@annabelross.com

Thank you to Jarrod for his superb sound recordings.

Thank you toNoemie Linafor the illustrations.