Little Egret

It first appeared in the UK in significant numbers in 1989 and first bred in Dorset in 1996. 

 It used to be that the plumage of the little Egret was great for hat décor. 

Little Egrets sleeping in marsh.

 Little Egrets sleep on a platform nest of sticks in a tree, bush or reed bed. 

Little Egrets are migrating bird, they spend their winters in North Africa.