20260208 Eurasian Teal & Mute Swan, Cley Marshes

 

20260108 Eurasian Teal
After Simon d'Etremont
but not back lit and no background gradients....
Watch all vids.

20260208 Mute Swan
Still afternoon haze.

20260208 Marsh Harrier
Mature female onto favoured bush.

20260207 Great White Egret & Grey Wagtail, Bintree Mill

 

20200207 Grey Wagtail
Below bridge and close, Big Black hastily pulled back to 626mm equiv...
 F6.3, depth of field on head, breast and mantle.
Colour Bokeh!

20260207 GW Egret
No Black-bellied Dipper... but reflection ops abound.
The road here seems to be lower than the surrounding water levels, so ops for low level shots.

20260207 GW Egret
Foot stirring technique. 

20260207 Culvert with White Railings
HDR1 shot, gives detail in the near shadows, but is this unreal...?
Excellent blue sky results, but the green grass goes blue also...
9-18mm used.

20260207 WR Culvert 
HDR1 shot, with straight forward de-processing applied to aid realism...
Surely a better angle also?

20260124 Iceland Gull & Purple Sandpiper, Sea Palling

 

20260124 Iceland Gull
1st winter.
1680mm using 1.4x as way out beyond the surf.
Wings project well beyond tail.

20260124 Iceland Gull
Averagely proportioned medium-large Gull with a round head, weak bill and plain looks...
apart from the white primaries.

20260124 Iceland Gull
Approaches the size of Herring Gull.

20260124 Iceland Gull
Centre Weighted exposure with Auto ISO...!
White wings and black wave exposed equally well!!?
 

20260124 Iceland Gull

20260124 Iceland Gull
Clear white remiges in elegantly shaped wing.
Pale barring on inner webs of rectrices.

20260124 Iceland Gull

20260124 Sea Palling
Sea defences.
14-42mm at 28mm effective, only just wide enough.
Concrete wall only just wide enough, a bottleneck at HT.

20260124 Purple Sandpiper

20260124 Sanderling
At 1120mm with 1.4x telecon pulled back to within the lenses normal range...
The telecon maintains quality in good light for portraits.

20260124 Sanderling

20260124 Purple Sandpiper
Feeding with Sanderling on the tide line but retreating to loaf on the rocks when flushed...

20260124 Sea Palling
Reefs of rocks create an excellent Gull lagoon.

20140125 Grey Heron
Birding the Teign Estuary, Newton Abbot.
Old photo of the week, E-M1 & Sigma 50-500mm effective 1000mm.
Better Noise Reduction of todays apps used.
In 14 years has camera tech moved on that much....??
cf OM1 & OMSystem 150-600mm effective 1200mm...

20260124 Iceland Gull
Juvenile plumage retained throughout winter.
No pale grey feathering in mantle.

20260124 Iceland Gull

20260128 Caspian Gull
1st winter in classic pose, but how many were on the beach this early morn...?

20260128 Sea Palling
Misty and silvery light all day.

20260128 Razor Shell
Elongate bivalve still hanging onto shell and snapped up by Herring Gull.
Due to heavy seas Razors shell have been washed up on mass onto Palling's Beach.
Bivalve's floating in the surf and easy pickings for Gulls.
Note the languid aggression of the Caspian Gull.

20260128 Iceland Gull

20260128 Iceland Gull

20260124 Purple Sandpiper

20260128 Gull sp....?
Whilst grilling Caspian Gulls another observer drew our attention to this bird...
as a possible 2nd winter Yellow-legged.
Unfortunately a small female type bird, so not helpful in Yellow-legged assessment.
Whiteish head, small black eye mask and longish and spikey primary projection though...

20260128 Gull sp?
The mantle and scapular grey tone is as pale as the BHGs and within the range of argenteus.
The bill is solid and shapely but not massive...