20240913 Photo Workshop, Image Processing

 

20240830 White-rumped Sandpiper, Titchwell

 

20240830 White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
More flank spikes revealed with wings raised.
What a rump. 

20240830 Little Stint & WRSand
Right under hide... size fog an issue here.

20240830 WRSand & Little Stint
Boby bulk of WRSand obvious here.

20240830 WRSand & Little Stint
Same two birds in afternnon sun and at long range.

20240830 Curlew Sandpiper
Juvenile with underdeveloped bill.

20240830 WRSand

20240830 WRSandpiper

20240830 WRSand
The petrel shot.
Say-no-more.

20240830 WRSand Calidris fuscicollis

20240818 Hudsonian Godwit, Burton Mere Wetlands Cheshire

 

20240818 Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
The ultimate shot...
OM1 ProCapture...

20240818 Black-tailed Godwit & Northern Lapwing
Would you claim Hudwit from this view...??
On arrival in hide burst swept complete flock just in case...

20240818 Hudsonian Godwit
F8

20240818 Hudsonian Godwit
F10

20240814 Burton Mere Wetlands

20240814 Burton Mere Wetlands
Centenary Pool
Godwit flock at rear.

20240818 Hudsonian Godwit
Head on face pattern as Spotted Redshank.

20240818 Hudsonian Godwit
Stood lower in water than Blackwits, shorter in leg especially tibia.

20240818 Hudsonian Godwit
Post breeding moult progressing.

20240818 Hudsonian Godwit
Thinner and blacker bill.

20240817 Caldy Duck Ponds West Kirby
Beside A540...

20240817 Black-tailed Godwit
5000 at HT roost.

20240817 Black-tailed Godwit

20240817 Mediterranean Gull
Loafing at HT off Marine Lake, West Kirby.

20240726 Greater Sand Plover, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Northumberland

 

20240726 Greater Sand Plover
Charadrius leschenaultii

20240726 Greater Sand Plover
British Isles Lifer 460...

20240726 Power Station Beach
Bird roosted amongst bolders here with Ringed Plover and Dunlin.
Good evening light.

20240726 Greater Sand Plover

20240726 Greater Sand Plover
At one with the bolders.

20240727 Med Gull
Juvenile off rocks at Beacon Point. 

20240727 Eider

20240727 Greater Sand Plover

20240727 Greater Sand Plover
Coming into land on Church Beach, Newbiggin-by -the-Sea.

20240727 GS Plover
Black mask against white chin and throat would be the first of many alarm bells,
 as the bird comes into land on a beach near you...

20240727 GS Plover
Feeding space aggression with Ringed, Sanderling runnig for cover...

20240727 GS Plover

20240727 GS Plover
Much larger and longer in the wing than Ringed in flight.
Feet slightly beyond tail.

20240727 GS Plover
Feeding on Church Beach.

20240726 Greater Sand Plover

20240726 Greater Sand Plover

20240729 Humber Bridge
Lincolnshire, the gateway to many ticks...

20240720 Caspian Gull juvenile green E/U, Sheringham

20240720 Caspian Gull
Fresh juv loafing on rocks with Herring Gull.

20240720 Caspian Gull

 

20240720 Lesser Black Backed Gull
2nd summer in wing moult,
white bases of secondaries showing as most of the greater coverts have been shed.

20240626 Cromers new rocky reef for Caspian Gulls

 

20240626 Rocky Reef
 Excellent way to spend a Gullers council tax.

20240626 Rocky Reef
Gulls on a level from prom and not easily flushed by the public.

20240626 
The first Gull portraite on Rocky Reef from prom.

202407016 Cromer Reef
Yet more construction...

20240716 Cromer Reef
3 massive diggers and millions of pounds...

20240802 Caspian Gull
Juvenile on Reef Edmondo.

20240802 Caspian Gull

20240802 Caspian Gull
Lt: green B/D.
Rt: metal on tibia.

20240802 Rocky Reef Cromer
Reef Edmondo still offshore....

20240802 Caspian Gull 
3rd summer on fishing boat beach.