Strange encounter! Scarce wading bird wasn't in the least alarmed by 200-plus country park runners

The great white egret seemed hardly to notice  the runners

                                                          


UNLIKE little egrets which are common, great white egrets are seldom seen in Cleethorpes.

Normally, it is a timid species which takes flight at first sight or sound of people or dogs.

But one remarkable bird, which has spent most of this week at the country park, has proved remarkably fearless.

Even with 200 runners jogging past, during this morning's Park Run, it scarcely batted an  eyelid.

Most of the runners had other things on their minds, but at least one seemed to spot the magnificent bird which, incidentally, stands taller than a heron.

Wow, what's that? A runner glances back at the unusual bird 

                                                                       

And the egret seems to acknowledge his  interest

The rest of the runners carry on their merry way