Friday, 18 August 2023

20230818 Booted Warbler, Blakeney Point

 

20230818 Booted Warbler
Damp tail tip.
Darker shafts in tertials obvious.

20230818 E Dotterel
Moribund juvenile nr Watch House.

20230818 Booted Warbler
Hippo's bill stretch or yawn.
Back lighting is best...?

20230818 Booted Warbler
Iduna vertical stretch & pot belly profile.
Darker crown sides before the eye showed well in every pose.

20230818 Pied Flycatcher
20 plus about the Point.

20230818 Icterine Warbler
1st aut in garden.

20230818 Booted Warbler
Wide based Hippos bill.
Orange glow to legs as with most passerines when back lit,
and showing darker feet hence booted name...
Arguably the most worthless name in all ornithology.

20230822 C Redstart
1st winter male, NE Norfolk.
White tips forming unusual collar.

20200921 C Redstart
Fresh post breeding male also with white collar and central throat stripe.


Friday, 4 August 2023

20230804 E Beavers, Sculthorpe Moor

 

20230804 E Beaver
Adult with undamaged tail.
Silently appeared on path from dyke.

20230804 E Beaver
2 very long eyebrow hairs over each eye.

20230804 E Beaver Kit
 Two kits raised in first year, a great success story....!

20230804 E Beaver kit
Grazing on the path.
2 Short pale eyebrow hairs.

20230804 E Beaver kit
Drying out on the path.

20230804 E Beaver channel
in vegetation to dyke.
Cut branches and tail flattened base.