20221027 Alpine Accentor, Aldeburgh Suffolk

 

20221027 Alpine Accentor

On wall of motte.

20221027 Alpine Accentor
1st winter plumage.

20221027 Alpine Accentor
Suitably rocky coastal defences.
Juvenile tertials retained, broad pale tips.

20221027 Alpine Accentor
Orange legs shot in great evening light...

20221030 Sparrowhawk
Juv on Sweethearts car.

20221025 Horned Lark, Runton Rd Clifftop Car Park

 

20221025 Horned Lark
2 birds dropped down to feed at the track edges.

20221025 Horned Lark

20221025 Horned Lark

20221021 Long-billed Dowitcher, Cley Marshes

20221021 Long-billed Dowitcher

Juvenile, Serpentine.

 

20221021 Long-billed Dowitcher

Bill long and delicately decurved.

Tail barred with black stripes dominating.

20221021 Long-billed Dowitcher

Plump and larger body than CSnipe.

20120905 Short-billed Dowitcher
Lodmoor Nat Res Dorset.
Juvenile.
Size as CSnipe with flatter body shape.
Bill kinks down slightly towards distal end compared with Snipes dead straight version.

20120905 Short-billed Dowitcher

20120905 Short-billed Dowitcher
Lodmoor Nature Res, Dorset.
Obviously notched tertials.

20111008 Long-billed Dowitcher
Juvenile, Davidstow Airfield.
Long and slender bill and legs.

20221019 Dartford Warbler, Blakeney Spit

 

20221019 Dartford Warbler
Return of Portin's little friend...
Male in post breeding pristine plumage.

20201222 Dartford Warbler
1st winter male as brown tones in face and hood.

20221019 Wren
2 Wrens moved about area with Dartford.
Goldcrests moved through sea-blite causing brief attraction.

20221019 Dartford Warbler
Long blackish graduated tail in flight with white outerwebs to outertail feathers,
obvious in bright sunlight.