20250326 Ring Ouzel & Hen Harrier, Roydon Common

 

20250326 Ring Ouzel
Female type.
In early morning mist and heavy dew.

20250326 Ring Ouzel
Against light, heat haze and dew evaporation, late morning.

20250326 Mandarine Duck
Santon Downham

20250321 Willow Tit, NE Norfolk

 

20250321 Willow Tit
Calling persistantly from top of tall tree.
Bib widens from chin to throat.

20250321 Willow Tit
Outer tail feather shorter...

20250321 Chiffchaff
Birds in full and loud song.

20230321 Willow Tit
Wing panel not obvious...
Loosley associated with Goldcrest untill stopping to call.

20250321 Blue Tit
Few pairs in area of damp woodland by Stream.
Long-tailed Tit flock of 10 birds and no sign of Marsh Tit...

20250321 Willow Tit
'zi-zi, taah taah taah'.

20161226 Marsh Tit 
Selbrigg Pond, but of limited use as in December.

20230403 Marsh Tit
Outer tail feather same length as others....

20230304 Marsh Tit
Sculthorpe Moor in March.

20210325 Marsh Tit

20250325 Willow Tit
Paler wing pale shows in sunlight.

20230401 Marsh Tit
Sculthorpe Moor.

20250401 Willow Tit
2 very active birds.
A third bird was persistantly calling from high above.

20250401 Willow Tit
R6 noticably shorter than tail tip.

20250319 Pallid Harrier, NE Norfolk

 

20250319 Pallid Harrier
Against very strong sunlight, initially an unidentified  silhouette in EVF...

20250319 Pallid Harrier
Strong face pattern but in shade here.

20250319 Pallid Harrier
Breast streaks fade to white belly.

20250319 Pallid Harrier
Mobbed by local Red Kite and Buzzard then soared up high....
as the Strait of Messina... those were the days.

20250319 Pallid Harrier
Very pallid cf Buzzard.

20250320 Hen Harrier
Warham Greens
5 primaries show in a rounded hand.
More contrast in the secondaries as bars easily visable.

20250320 Hen Harrier
Warham Greens

20250319 Marsh Harrier
Male twisting down onto prey.
Similar primary formula as Hen... 

20250314 Twite & Black-tailed Godwit Cley Marshes

 

20250314 Twite

20250314 Twite
Spring male with pink rump.
On ridge by Sea Pool. c12 got up flushed by Marsh Harrier.
Small as a mouse, against the light and heat haize...

20250314 Twite
Pleased with the weedy bokeh in background...

20250314 Ruff
Swan Lake.

20250314 Black-tailed Godwit 
Within the flock, a shot for the Godwit enthusiasts...

20250214 Pintail
Continually up-ending, 1/2000th to freeze head movement this close.

20250224 Lesser White-fronted Goose, Warham Fort & Cley Marshes

 

20250224 Cattle Egret 
2 wintering in Wighton area.

20250224 Russian White-fronted Goose
Warham Fort, River Stiffkey flood plain.

20250224 Lesser White-fronted Goose
9 birds here.

20240224 Lesser White-fronted Goose & Greylag Goose
Greylag 73% longer & 56% heavier...!

20250214 Lesser White-fronted Goose
Comparison with White Fronts. Larger gander at right end.