20230730 Black-throated Diver, NE Highlands

 

20230730 Loch in early morn silence.

20230730 Black-throated Diver
3 ads cruise from island out into Loch.

20230730 Black-throated Diver

20230730 Black-throated Diver
Adults flew around above Loch getting higher and off to the South...
Fishing trip?

20230730 Black-throated Diver

20230603 Black-throated Diver
Nesting on Island beach.

20230603 Black-throated Diver

20230603 Black-throated Diver
Following bathing returned to beach under water and turned one egg.

20230603 Black-throated Diver
Foot up over tail.

20230728 Golden Eagle NE Highlands

 

20230728 Golden Eagle
Adult in power glide across valley.

20230728 Golden Eagle
Golden nape caught the sun.

20230728 Steep crags by the road in Eagle Strath.

20230728 The bleakness of Eagle country...

20230728 Scotch Argus
By the Loch side.

20230728 N Wheatear
1st winter type raised in the Strath.

20230719 Black-shouldered Kite, Brograve Drainage Mill, Horsey

 

20230719 Black-shouldered Kite
1200mm x3 crop, cx72 mag scope eyepiece....

20230719 Brograve Drainage Mill 
on Waxham New Cut

20230719 Oak Eggar 
Female on footpath in a torpid state.

20230719 Oak Eggar 
A 'Primitve Moth' as they cannot feed in adult state and rely on reserves from the caterpillar phase.

20230721 Cormorant
Brograve Drainage Mill... a retro KGB shot.

20230721 CCrane
imm. bird.

20230711 Ruddy Shelduck, NWT Cley Marshes

 

20230711 Ruddy Shelduck
Male with female Common Shelduck.

20230711 Ruddy Shelduck

20230711 Ruddy Shelduck
Male in forground with remains of neck collar and paler head.

20230711 Little Tern
With sprat to feed to partner.
c35 adults about enclosures on Blakeney Spit.
Not one chick seen and no juveniles on beach....
Pairs showing frustration feeding and nesting, yet another failure year.
No juvenile Sandwich Tern along the spit either...

20230704 Glossy Ibis, Cantley Sugarbeet Factory

 

20230704 CCrane
Circled low over pools.