20251214 Cirl Bunting & Raven, Labrador Bay Devon

 

20251214 Hopes Nose
Looking across Babbacombe Bay early morn.
As every Devon patch Birder would arguably say... 'its hardly worth it'... but was it?

20251212 Lesser Crested Tern & Northern Chiffchaff, Exe Estuary Devon

20251212 Lesser Crested Tern
Bird flew up estuary and landed on mud bank towards Lympstone Barracks.
Preferred to perch on low objects and buoys. 
Shot at 1680mm.

20251212 LC Tern
Shot taken with 1.4x telecon and x2 digi-zoom, effective 3360mm...
Very useful for in the field ID but much frowned upon by Photographers. 
And some Twitchers...
Bird 1.5Km off Turf at this point as above.

20251212 LC Tern
The bird, all of a sudden, flew over to Turf's buoys as billed...
The bill showed orange-ish with sunlight through it.

20251212 Lesser Crested Tern
Take off from one of the closer pink buoys.

20251212 Lesser Crested Tern
 Yellow bill becoming deeper towards base.

20251212 LC Tern

20251212 LC Tern
Paler grey rump.

20251212 Turf Quay
The bird is on the nearer green buoy.
28mm equiv.

20251213 Exe Estuary
Twitchers arriving on the fateful misty Saturday morn...
Greyscale.

20251213 Exe Estuary
Mist with colour.
Ice formed outside and inside the tent...

20251213 Northern Chiffchaff
c10 in Warrens Carr. Palest bird shown.

20251213 Northern Chiffchaff
Same bird as above.

20251205 Snow Bunting, John Muir Country Park, East Lothian