Thursday, 6 February 2025

20250206 Pallid Harrier, Warham Greens

 

20250206 Pallid Harrier
Adult female.
Big Black 240mm equiv plus x2 in camera crop....

20250206 Pallid Harrier
Darker brown secondaries into which black bars merge.

20250206 Pallid Harrier

20250206 Pallid Harrier

20250206 Mallard
Pair wandering salt marsh on a quieter evening...

20250206 Barn Owl


Saturday, 1 February 2025

20250201 Big Black, OM System 150-600mm test shots

 

20250201 BHGull
Big Black x1.4 telecon, 1108mm.


20250201 BHG
300mm F4 x2 Tele. 1200mm equiv.

20250201 BHG
2400mm equiv.



20250201 Mute Swan

20250202 Bearded Reedling
x2 telecon,1896mm equiv.


Saturday, 25 January 2025

20250125 Lesser White-fronted Goose, Ken Hill Marshes

 

20250125 Lesser White-fronted Goose
Shot from Beach Rd upon arrival, flock flying to South end of Marshes.

202501225 LWFGoose
One Russian WF had joined the flock.

20250125 LWFGoose & RWFGoose

20250125 LWFGoose

20250125 LWFGoose


Tuesday, 14 January 2025

20250114 Glaucous Gull, Old Hunstanton

 

20250114 Feral Pigeon
Much Peregrine prey about cliff, also Fulmar, and Waders on shoreline...
Ideal nesting location but for disturbance in the summer months.
Last nested in about 1815 and birds have roosted on the cliffs more recently, 
surely to return...?

20250114 Glaucous Gull
1st winter loafing on tideline.
Image from 100% frame shot.

20250114 Glaucous Gull
Image from in camera x2 crop... 200%.
Let the camera do the work?


20250114 Glaucous Gull

20250114 Sanderling
Abundant and tame on Old Hunstanton Beach.

20250114 Red Kite
Pre-roost gathering on Grimston Warren.
25 counted into woods.
2 male Hen Harriers into Roydon Roost very late and too dark...


20250114 Glaucous Gull

Tuesday, 7 January 2025

20250107 Tundra Bean Goose & Greenland Whitefronted Goose, Saxlingham Norfolk

 

20250107 Tundra Bean Goose
Head of gander is larger and even more square than the goose, and Pink-foot's.

20250107 Tundra Bean Goose
Portriate of the pair.

20250107 Tundra Bean Goose

20250107 Glossy Ibis
Stiffkey Flood.


20250108 Greenland White-fronted Goose
Side by side comparison supplied by SJMG using 'the big white' 150-400mm x1.25, x2 telecon.
Equivalent to optically 2000mm in old money...
Some reach and some exceptional quality!!
Note against a bright near white backdrop.
Note Dx0 processing used here.


20250108 Greenland White-fronted Goose
300mm F4 x2 telecon. Equivalent to optically 1200mm...
Note straight forward Adobe processing used here.




20250108 Greenland White-fronted Goose
Flew in with Pink-foot flock late morning.

20250108 Pink-footed Goose

Ref: J Kemp. ID of Greenland White-fronted Goose. BWorld 2001.


20250104 Green Sandpiper
Wintering bird at Letheringsett Ford.


Tuesday, 31 December 2024

20241231 American Yellow Warbler, Leybourne Lakes Country Park, Snodland, Kent

 

20241231 American Yellow Warbler
Squeezed in a great bird on the last day of 2024, making 9 BritIsles Lifers this year,
 twice the recent average. A late rush. Clinical day twitch...

20241231 A Yellow Warbler
1st winter male.
Diffused with cadmium yellow throughout.

20241231 A Yellow Warbler
Olive green tones in upperparts.
Pale base to lower mandible and pale brown streaks restricted to upper right of breast
donote 1st winter male.

20241231 American Yellow Warbler
Bird spent most of its time in the Sewage Works, an excellent food supply.
Infrequently showed well in scrub along dyke.

20241231 A Yellow Warbler
Black eye in a very plain face indicative of species.

20241231 American Yellow Warbler
Species first seen on 17th April 1998, Boy Scout Sanctuary, Texas.
262 species in 2 weeks, arguably the greatest trip of all time.

20241231 A Yellow Warbler
Diagnostic yellow inner web in tail feathers shows in this preening shot.
Note white edging to secondary tips.

20241231 A Yellow Warbler

20241231 A Yellow Warbler
Yellow throughout... A 1st winter female is a pale greyish olive overall,
 a different ID proposition.


Tuesday, 24 December 2024

20241224 Hybrid Gull, Blakeney Quay

 

20241224 Hybrid Gull

20241224 Herring Gull
Paired with this bird. A shorter legged female argenteus.

20241224 Holding territory around Quay and onto hotel roof.

20241224 Hybrid Herring x LBB Gull
Slight yellow tone in tarsus of pale legs. May increase into spring?

20241225 Herring Gull
Black primary wedge.

20241225 Hybrid Gull
Large black primary wedge.
P10s mirror has fused with tip and P9 has a large mirror.