GLEN VAUDREY: Northern big bird

Glen Vaudrey sent me this email a couple of weeks back...

Jon,

I had a very interesting sighting on the way into work this morning a very big bird, think big in the sense of the northern avian cryptid the Big Bird.

Basically I was travelling into to Warrington this morning at about 6:56am when I noticed from the window of the train a large black bird heading south. It appeared to be a good distance away how far is hard to say but close to 800m. There was certainly the suggestion of a large size about it. I would say it had wingspan twice that of a heron.

I tend to think that the sighting was an optical illusion and all I was watching fly along was indeed a heron. Certainly from another angle the bird did not appear to be anything special. I has however got me thinking, I think there is going to be a little more investigation need before I have an answer I will be happy with

All the best

Glen