20230520 Cattle Egret & Cinnabar Moth, Overy Marshes

20230520 Cinnabar Moth

 

20230520 Cattle Egret
Probably a breeding pair... with prime cattle of the Holkham Estate.

20230520
Carpets of Thrift in the dunes.

20230520 Tufted Duck
Pair in dyke.

20230508 Grey-headed Wagtail & Curlew Sandpiper, NWT Cley Marshes

 

20230508 Grey-headed Wagtail

With cattle by Wattling Water in flock of 34 Yellow Wagtail.

Heavy blotching on breast sides.

20230508 Grey-headed Wagtial
Grey nape and crown showed well from rear.

20230508 Grey-headed Wagtail
From front face showed blacker.

20230501 Blue-headed Wagtail Motacillla flava flava
Solid greyish blue cap but, paler chin and throat... suggesting Channel cline.
Only shot of bird with 4 others that moved on West...

20230508 Yellow Wagtail
Female flavissima

20230508 Yellow Wagtail
Male flavissima

20230510 Walsy Halo

20230505 Curlew Sandpiper
Simmonds scrape. 
Attaining full breeding plumage.

20230505 Curlew Sandpiper
Bill short and light,especially at the base for this species, suggesting male.
Proportions as Dunlins.

20230504 Black Tern, KWM & Glossy Ibis Cley Marshes

 

20200504 Black Tern 
Black head and body of male.

20230504 Black Tern
Swooping marsh tern.

20230504 Black Tern

20230504 Black Tern
Dark grey body, blacker hood and white chin of female.

20200505 Glossy Ibis 
2 over Cley Marshes.

20230505 Glossy Ibis
Swan Lake Cley.

20230510 Swan Lake
Iron Road.

20230502 Hoopoe & Ring Ouzel, West Runton

 

20230502 Hoopoe
Returned several times to CP now £4.00 a shot...
Well worth it today!

20230502 Hoopoe
Olympus users club reunion and ScotDoc scoped a Whinchat way out on fenceline.

20230502 Hoopoe
Favoured overflow CP field as good feeding.

20230428 Ring Ouzel
Lone male.

20230428 Ring Ouzel

20230422 Bar-tailed Godwit, Eye Field Cley Marshes

 

20230422 Bar-tailed Godwit
A rare cr Bar-tailed. Adult Female...

20230422 Bar-tailed Godwit

20230422 Bar-tailed Godwit & Ruff
Flock of c40.

20230422 Bar-tailed Godwit
Built for speed and long distance migration.

20230421 Baltic Gull, Hunstanton

 

20230421 Baltic Gull
Not able to shoot bird fully side on due to fence....
Small bird cf Herring Gull and short legged.

20230421 Baltic Gull

20230421 Baltic Gull
Longer mirror than ideal.

20230418 Raven, Holkham Park

 

20230418 C Raven
Monument nest site.

20230418 C Raven

20230429 Raven

20230429 Raven
Juveniles fledged to nearby tree.

20230429 Holkham Monument

20230427 C Raven
2 juvs raised.

20230427 C Raven
Adult in inner primary wing moult.

20230410 Mandarin Duck
Selbrigg Pond.