20241101 Siberian Chiffchaff, NWT Cley Marshes

 

20241101 Siberian Chiffchaff
Called frequently in bursts of single note.
'sweet' louder than most Sibs.
White underpart especially clean on belly and chin.

20241101 Siberian Chiffchaff
Olive green edges to remiges, forming panel on closed wing. Rectrices also edged olive green.
 Dark alula stands out.

20241101 Siberian Chiffchaff
Pale mid-grey upperparts. Raw Umber margin blended to crown sides.

20241101 Siberian Chiffchaff
More active and louder bird than the norm, moved quickly through hedgerows.

20241028-31 Arctic Peregrine, Cley Marshes

 

20241031 Arctic Peregrine Falco peregrinus calidus
Excellent shots and ID by GRGS. The bird over the East Bank.
This shot captures the large white cheek patch.

20241031 Arctic Peregrine
Pale forehead and crown.
Crippling series of shots by GRGS The Cley Raptor Guru and Devotee.

20241031 Arctic Peregrine
Pale feet.
Lack of heavey dark feather centres in flanks.

20241031 Arctic Peregrine
Broken moustachial stripe below eye.

20241028 Arctic Peregrine
Probably the same bird here on Bull Marsh.
Seen hunting over the scrapes early morn, flushing all wildfowl.

20241028 Arctic Peregrine
Supercilium flares up onto nape.

20241031 Arctic Peregrine
Flank marking detail...

Ref: Millington R. 2011 ID of Arctic Peregrines in Britain. Birding World 24.
        Gensbol B. 2004 Birds of Prey. Collins.

20241023 Golden Plover 
Large flock on scrapes.
Bird with aberrant primary coverts.

20241026 Long-billed Dowitcher
Adult in non-br plumage back at Cley.
Moved by Lapwing and showed a white panel of underwing coverts.
The grey breast meets the white belly without spotting.

20241026 Long-billed Dowitcher
Often hides amongst roosting Teal.

20241018 Yellow-browed Warbler & Horned Lark Suffolk Coast

 

20241018 Yellow-browed Warbler
St Edmunds Churchyard Southwold.

20241018 YbWarb

20241018 YbWarb
Bursts of calling every 10mins...

20241018 St Edmunds
Excellent habitat.

20241018 Horned Lark
4, Kessingland South Beach.

20241018 Horned Shore Lark

20241019 Siberian Chiffchaff
Kessingland Cliffs with LtTit flock.
A quiet 'heeet' call infrequently given.

20241006 Richards Pipit & Red-backed Shrike, Happisburgh

 

20241006 Richards Pipit
At long distance a Richards is striking.

20241006 Richards Pipit
One of the two birds showed well on the coast track.

20241008 Richards Pipit
1st winter with much white edging and tips in wing.

20241008 Richards Pipit
Bird seen to hover before landing in crop.
Electric and rasping flight call: 'shrreeeep'.

20241006 Red-backed Shrike
Bowling Green hedge.
1st winter.

20241006 Red-backed Shrike
Late evening by the pond.

20241008 Richards Pipit
Streaking confined to upper breast.
Lores remains pale head on.

20241008 Eurasian Hoopoe
North Walsham

20241008 E Hoopoe

20241006 Asian Desert Warbler, Winterton Dunes

 

20241006 Asian Desert Warbler
BIL 463.

20241006 Asian Desert Warbler
greyish wash to upper-parts.

20241006 Asian Desert Warbler
dark shafts on tertials.

20241006 Asian Desert Warbler
black around shaft of central tail feather. 

20240928 Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, Bempton Cliffs

 

20241002 Pale-legged Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes
Gave one loud call first thing in morning, strong metallic 'chi-ink', or 'pink'
Somewhat explosive in quality.

20241002 Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
Species record on Thailand trip 2000.
Note white claws enhancing pale feet and legs.

20241002 Pale-legged Leaf Warbler

20241002 Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
Has the jizz and behaviour akin to a Radde's Warbler....

20241002 Arctic Warbler
Spurn NNR Discovery Centre Scrub.
In shade for comparison with Pale-leg...
Greener and not so bulky, compact large headed phyllosc shape.

20241002 Arctic Warbler
In bright direct sunlight, no comparison....
yellowish green.

20240929 Yellow-browed Warbler
Frequently showed in skylight out of cover.
Pale-legged loosley associated with 2 Yellow-browed Warblers above it on a feeding circuit.

20240929 Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
Slowly moved through dense bramble tangle, giving only brief views as here.

20240930 Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
However deep in cover the pink legs and feet showed through.
Also the greater covert bar showed.
Pink-legged Leaf Warbler would be more memorable...

20241002 Pale-legged Leaf Warbler

20241002  Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
Lesser covert bar on left wing. 

20241002 Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
Small head to bulky body jizz.

20241002 Song Thrush
On territory.
As one vol said ' its about time Bempton had a good bird'....

20241002 Tree Sparrow
Colony about feeders.

20241002 Pale-legged Leaf Warbler

20240922 Siberian Stonechat, KWMeadows

20240923 Siberian Stonechat
1st winter male.
Much pale buff edging....

20240923 Siberian Stonechat
Where in the cline of maura to stejnegeri can only be determined by DNA...?
or can it be a lack of field knowledge...

20240923 Siberian Stonechat

 

20240923 Siberian Stonechat
Black underwing coverts.

20240923 Siberian Stonechat
Dark malar stripe and eye mask show well face on, also the paler supercilium becomes clearer.

20240926 Siberian Stonechat
Quite a richly toned specimen.

20240926 Siberian Stonechat

20240926 Siberian Stonechat

20240926 Siberian Stonechat
Black Ax and coverts, edged with off white indicating 1st cy.

20240926 Yellow-browed Warbler
Waco Camp.

20240926 Yellow-browed Warbler