GIANT HERON SEEN ON RIVER DEE

By mikkitiamo on January 1, 1970

A bird measuring in at over 8 feet tall has landed for the first time on the RSPB Dee Estuary nature reserve, near Neston on the Wirral.

However, the local fish population need not worry, as this bird is a specially commissioned recycled wood sculpture by local artist Paul Bearman.

Paul Bearman, teaches at Wirral Metropolitan College and has exhibited his work internationally. He said