20260923 Lapland Bunting & American Wigeon, Iron Road & Popes Pool.

 

20260923 Lapland Bunting
1st winter tame bird in the shadows on track.
1680mm, ISO12800, Big Black +MC14.

20260923 Red-throated Diver
Adult off Cley Beach.
1120mm, Small Black +MC14.

20260927 Bar-tailed Godwit
Confiding Juvenile avidly feeding, Grambore Pools.

20260923 American Wigeon
Eclipse male taking flight.
White axillaries and underwing coverts, pale grey in E Wigeon.
But this depends on how direct sunlight catches the underwing....
Ref eclipse male just above American. During the burst this appeared pale grey in most shots.

20260920 Spotted Redshank, Cley Marshes

 

20260920 Spotted Redshank
2 moulting juveniles, Wattling Water

20260920 Spotted Redshank

20260920 Spotted Redshank
When spooked the birds flew behind the reedy islands, returning after about 10mins.

20260920 Golden Plover
Eye Field

20260920 Spotted Redshank

20260905 Pied Flycatcher, Lowestoft Cemetery

 

20260905 Pied Flycatcher
1st winter bird.
With an obvious and white median coverts bar!?
As in Semi-collard form...

20260814 Pied Flycatcher
Cley VC CPark.
Fainter median coverts bar than above.
Otherwise a very similar wing pattern.

20260814 Pied Flycatcher
Cley VC.
Minimal tertial patch also on this bird.

20260905 Red-footed Falcon, Rotterdam Rd Lowestoft

 

20260905 Red-footed Falcon
Unaware juvenile...
Recalls tame birds by clifftop footpaths in the South West.

20260905 Red-footed Falcon
Strange but true...

20260905 Red-footed Falcon
Bird came down to feed on locusts put out by a local dog walker.

20260905 Red-footed Falcon
Early morn exercises, the Eagle pose.

20260905 The Norfolk Hawker Mural
2nd birder of the morn.
Red-foot initially flew low around my head as if expecting to be fed...
then back up onto roof edge.