20250620 Eurasian Spoonbill & Black crowned Night Heron, Cley Marshes

 

20250620 E Spoonbill
Ad collecting nest material.
For a second brood?

20250620 E Spoonbill

20250620 Barn Swallow
of Bish.

20250622 Black-crowned Night Heron
Off Pats and into NFW.

20250527 Marsh Warbler, Weybourne. Purple Heron, Cley Marshes.

 

202505027 Marsh Warbler
Male in full song of endless mimicry.

20250527 Marsh Warbler
Clean pale primary tips.

20250527 Purple Heron
Adult in breeding condition.
First seen over Weybourne going West.

20250527 Purple Heron
In flight over Pats and went down on Blakeney Freshes.

20250527 Purple Heron
Classic flight profile, heavy keel, thin bill and large foot bundle.

20250527 Tundra Ringed Plover
9 on Pats this afternoon.

20250530 Marsh Warbler
From the teasel clump early morn.

20250527 Marsh Warbler

20250526 Eurasian Curlew
1826hrs Lt: 7J yellow flag over orange on tibia. Rt: yellow on tibia with metal on tarsus.
Propose the female with the tags...
Birds soon went off NW.

20250531 Reed Warbler 
In song Stiffkey Fen.
Delivered in a relaxed chortle... unlike the full on delivery of Marsh.

20250607 Marsh Warbler
Male in song, The Skirts Cley Marshes.

20250526 E Curlew
Imaged processed in Elements 2025 with Depth Blur...
cf image above.

20250525 Booted Eagle, Kelling Est

 

20250525 Booted Eagle
 Pale morph with central tail feathers moulted.

20250525 Booted Eagle
Off white upper tail coverts and pale band across wing into scapulars.

20250525 Booted Eagle
The Head of an eagle shows well here.
Gape extends back under the eye and chiselled face.
Comments on the heads of very pale miss IDed Buzzards along the Suffolk boarder are
interesting.... 'that's not the head of an Eagle....??'

20250525 Booted Eagle
Minimal kite like tail adjustments into wind.

20250525 Booted Eagle
Hanging in firm Westerly over Kelling Heath.

20250525 Garganey
Bagpuss Hide.

20250520 Red-spotted Bluethroat & Red-backed Shrike, Weybourne

 

20250520 Red-spotted Bluethroat
Luscinia svecica svecica, nominate race.
Breeds Scandinavia, winters North Africa and Southern edge of the Sahara.

20250520 RSBluethroat
Waco camp and CPark buzzing with Jungle Club activity early morn....

20250520 RSBluethroat
Rumour has it bird was supressed for 3hrs, from the wider wags and national commercials...
normal for Norfolk.

20250520 Goosander
Female roosting with Shelduck and Egyptian Goose, Stiffkey Fen.
An odd record...?

20250520 RSBluethroat
Dull orange edge of the tail panels can been seen in this shot.

20250519 Red-backed Shrike
Female West of CP and against strong afternoon light.

20250516 Temminck's Stint & Wood Sandpiper, Cley Marshes

 

20250516 Temminck's Stint
Record number of 10 this Spring...!

20250516 Temminck's Stint
Big Black plus MC14 does quite well with these mud coloured mice on mud and at range.
A clean image.

20250516 Temminck's Stint
Will they come in close?

20250515 Temminck's Stint
6 off 10, the normal view of Stints at Cley...

20250515 Barn Swallow
Highly confiding at Cley...

20240515 Temminck's Stint
300mm F4 plus MC20 for comparison.
These 2 came in close, suddenly on central hides so much so that they were IDed as Little's by
a competent local birder...??

20240515 Brown Hare
Arguably the best Hare shot on file...
300mm F4 plus MC20.

20250518 Temminck's Stint
Comparison with Common Sandpiper is not valid...

20250518 Temminck's Stint
T4-T6 white.

20250513 Wood Sandpiper
with juicy grub.

20250513 Wood Sandpiper
Barred under-wing on white cf very dark greenish brown of Green and Solitary.

20250508 Black-legged Kittiwake, Lowestoft

 

202500508 BLKittiwake
Orange LC.

20250508 Orange NZ

20250508 Orange L9

20250508 BLKittiwake
B&Q shelves on BT Exchange... complete success.

20250508 BLKittiwake
Ledges on the BT Exchange in town.
A must see spectacle.

20250508 Interpretation
Reading this is a challenge as the colonies smell is overwhelming...

20250508 Kittiwake Tower off South Beach.
Not so successful... so far, as only 1 pair nesting on far side, as last year.

20250506 Red-footed Falcon, Carlton Marshes SWT

 

20250506 Red-footed Falcon
Overcast grey this morn.

20250506
Crop...

20250506 RFFalcon
1st summer male.
Shots with MC14, ISO 3200.

20250506 RFFalcon
1st summer male.
Shot with MC20 lent by Ticker.
ISO doubled for correct exposure in grey conditions...
Slightly more detail captured at edges of feather zones.
Requires a sturdy tripod to gain full advantage...

20250506 RFFalcon
1st summer male with 5 juvenile outer tail feathers retained.

20250508 Red-footed Falcon
Female in better light on 8th.