20261109 Isabelline Shrike, Brancaster

 

20261109 Isabelline Shrike
Very poor mask. 1st winter wing feathers.

20261109 Isabelline Shrike
1st winter, very similar to 1st winter Turkestan Shrike

20261109 Isabelline Shrike
Minimal white in primaries base.

20261109 Isabelline Shrike

20261106 Russian White-fronted Goose, Langham

 

20261106 Brambling 
8 Birds had arrived at Walsey Hills.

20261026 Rufous-tailed Robin, South Landing Flamborough

 

20261025 Rufous-tailed Robin & Wren
1650hrs as darkness fell into the gully on the first evening...
this was going to be a difficult photo shoot.
1/100th sec, F6.1, ISO102400...?? Manual Focus and Night Vision used.
Pulled lens back to 800mm from 1200.
This did not give any light gain. Best to shoot at 1200mm, F6.3.
Limiting max ISO to 80000 also helped with grainy noise.

20261026 Rufous-tailed Robin
Luscinia sibilans
Family of Nightingales, Common and Thrush and therefore skulks in dense veg...
1/250 sec, F6.3, ISO64000,
Night Vision used to locate subject... in the dark.
Pink legs and white nails showed well in the darkness.

20261026 Goldfinch
Some light relief from the nocturnal Rufous Robin...
Excellent sunflower crop at Bempton Cliffs with about 60 dynamic Goldfinch.
Excellent mode, ProCapSH2 burst, allows for seed positioning.

20261026 Rufous-tailed Robin
Long distance migrant from East Asia, winters in Southern China.
20 years ago will have been overlooked in Europe. All records are in recent years.

20261025 Bullfinch
Pair frequented the gully during the hours of waiting...
F6.3 and focusing practice.
Note pink reflected onto lower mandible.
Note all birds in gully were ringed, except for the Rufous-tailed.

20261026 Rufous-tailed Robin
1/200th sec, ISO64000, tried -1.7EV to lower ISO.
Better to have shot burst at 1/10th sec.
Large concave eye in smaller head than Robins. Obvious eye-ring.
Rufous tones in tail and wing feathers.

20261028 Eurasian Robin
1/10th sec, ISO32000, in early morn gloom.
Pulled back to 716mm to no effect.

20261027 Pallas's Warbler
Bempton Cliffs.

20261027 Whooper Swan
Flock of 32 off Cliffs. Appeared as a white line way out to NE.

20261024 Slender-billed Nutcracker, Mundesley

 

20261024 Slender-billed Nutcracker
Mundesley was brought to a stand still as the twitch wore on...
Present from 23rd to 28th.

20261024 Slender-billed Nutcracker
Hoping to star on the telebox.

20261024 Slender-billed Spotted Nutcracker
The twitch was rapidly becoming a duff event this morning.
At about this time the local bus service was stuck in the road.

20261024 Spotted Nutcraker
Was this the largest British Twitch ever...??
Once Beama started policing the road... its time to leave.
The last irruption to Britain was in 1968. 
On the 28th 2 gunshots were heard and the bird was seen no more...