20240128 Green-winged Teal, Holkham Freshmarsh

 

20240128 Green-winged Teal
With male Eurasian Teal and lacks white scapular stripe.

20240128 Green-winged Teal 
Deeper pinkish buff breast than Eurasian with vertical white stripes show well head on.

20240128 E Curlew
Warham Greens, subject ID and focus points over the whole sensor....

20240128 Mistle Thrush
Lady Anne's Drive.

20240128 Green-winged Teal
Image from RAW.
Fine vermaculations pick-up on lower flank only....

20190620 Green-winged Teal
Male at Cley.
Note camera able to pick up vermaculations on Eurasian but not those on the American bird.

20190620 Grreen-winged Teal

20240203 American Black Scoter
Adult male in this flock of Eurasian and Velvet Scoter.

20240126 Long-tailed Duck & Goldeneye, Snettisham

 

20240126 Lt Duck

202401026 Lt Duck
Topaz trialed on this image... massive detail appeared and noise is controlable!
But was the detail in the eye say, actuallly there on original shot...?
The AI software detected duck but failed to pick up the dark outer primaries,
thin scapular points and long tail...

2024021026 Lt Duck

20240126 Goldeneye
Male in breeding finary and displaying.

20240126 Goldeneye

20240126 Pink-footed Goose
Into land, Holkham Freshmarsh. 20,000+ here today.
OM1 Subject dection bird...

20240126 Red-breasted Merganser
BOStaithe Quay.
Male de-legging crab.

20240118 XAC Pink-footed Goose, Cley

 Grey neck collar with code XAC

Metal ring no1704003.

Mate of Tag no1499 the bird with Orange ring on left leg and black code CAB.

Ringed as an adult at High Kelling 16/1/18.

Movements Cley Marshes 12-25/10/18(with 2 juveniles), in fields at Weybourne 21/10/18, inland of Cley 31/10/18-3/11/18, Binham 9/12/18, Weybourne 14+16/12/18, Holkham (Norfolk) 22/12/18, Docking (Norfolk) 27/12/18, Saxlingham (Norfolk) 11/1/19, Docking 20/11/19, Snettisham (Norfolk) 26/11/19, Heacham (Norfolk) 5/1/20, Wells (Norfolk) 6/11/20, Holkham 7/11/20, Wighton (Norfolk) 19/10/21, Bircham Newton (Norfolk) 25/11/21, Rollesby (Norfolk) 22/11/22, Weybourne 30/11/22, Frodsham Marsh (Cheshire) 27/2/23. Seen in fields south of Walsey Hills NOA 30/9/23+10/10/23 and S of Cley 18/1/24.

20240118 Pink-footed Goose
XAC and probable leg ringed partner 2nd bird to left.

20240118 Pink-foot
XAC from the 'old High Kelling' ringing effort.

20240118 Pink-foot
XAC over 6 years old this winter.

Pink-footed Goose Colour-marking Project CGXAC 16/01/2018 NORFOLK High Kelling Adult Bird ID METAL RING First Ringed Re-sighted Sex: Region: Site: Date Age Date Site Region Status Goslings GBT1704003 No. of Mate 12/10/2018 Cley NORFOLK 2 Seen Alive roCAB 13/10/2018 Cley NORFOLK Seen Alive 16/10/2018 Cley NORFOLK Seen Alive 18/10/2018 Cley NORFOLK Seen Alive 20/10/2018 Cley NORFOLK Seen Alive 21/10/2018 Cley - Weybourne NORFOLK Seen Alive 31/10/2018 Cley Village NORFOLK 2 Seen Alive roCAB 02/11/2018 Old Woman's Lane, Cley NORFOLK 2 Seen Alive roCAB 03/11/2018 Old Woman's Lane, Cley NORFOLK 2 Seen Alive roCAB 09/12/2018 Binham NORFOLK Seen Alive 14/12/2018 Weybourne NORFOLK Seen Alive 06 February 2024. Pink-footed Goose Colour-marking Project 16/12/2018 Weybourne 22/12/2018 Holkham 27/12/2018 Docking 11/01/2019 Saxlingham 20/11/2019 Docking 26/11/2019 Snettisham Coastal Park 05/01/2020 Heacham Bottom Farm 06/11/2020 Wells 07/11/2020 Lady Anne Drive, Holkham 19/10/2021 Crabbe Road, Wighton 25/11/2021 Bircham Newton 22/11/2022 Rollesby 30/11/2022 Weybourne 27/02/2023 Frodsham Marsh 30/09/2023 Walsey Hills 18/01/2024 Cley Marshes NORFOLK. A joint initiative of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. Further details are available from Goose and Swan Monitoring Programme, WWT, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, GL2 7BT - colourmarkedwildfowl@wwt.org.uk 

20240118 Shoveler sub-eclipse 1st winter, Cley & Hybrid Wigeon, Stiffkey

 

20240118 Shoveler
Scaup faced extreme variant.
Darker brown plumage overal.

20240118 Shoveler
1st winter male with dull yellow iris.

20240118 Shoveler
Sub-eclipse plumage can be retained until first pre-breeding moult.

20240215 Hybrid Wigeon
Mallard x Wigeon...

20240215 Hybrid Wigeon
White boardered speculum.

20240215 Hybrid Wigeon
Larger Mallard shaped bill.

20240108 Northern Waterthrush, Haybridge Creek, Maldon Essex

 

20240108 Northern Waterthrush
Seiurus noveboracensis
A New World Warbler that dwells on stagnant wet ground....

20240108 Northern Waterthrush
The light wing loading of a long distance migrant.
Triangular shaped wing as Starling.
Advanced emargination on P7 & P8 obvious.
These create gaps at the wingtip which forces air through the remiges, increasing the generation of lift.

20240108 NWaterthrush
The ultimate pose.

20240108 Dyke at top end of Haybridge Creek
Favoured by Waterthrush.
All the signs of a large twitch over several days....
Excellent level of camoflage here, JboMac would be pleased.
Shame about the dark green rucsack and the pinky brown camera cover though.
Quote of the day:... 'no I don't twitch at weekends due to the fighting..?!?'

20240108 NWaterthrush
Called frequently a sharp and loud 'chi-ink' when moving location.
Would set all alarm bells ringing for a British birder... as the mayor of Hiroshima said...

20240108 The Dyke at Heybridge Creek
By midday the snow began to fall. Time to wrap the days retirement twitch.

20240108 NWaterthrush
Suitable flecking through chin and throat cf S motacilla

20240101 Dark-bellied Brent Goose D3 & J4, Salthouse Marshes

 

20240101 Dark-bellied Brent
J4 and D3 with 2 1st winter birds.
The pair are in the Cley area for the 5th successive winter...!

20240101 Db Brent
Adult D3 with 8 1st winter birds... number fluctuated about 7, is this a creche?
Pair can lay up to 8 eggs.

20240101 Db Brent
 green D, lime 3

Left leg: lime ring with black code 3.

Right leg: green ring with white code D.

Metal ring no.6181795

Ringed 14/5/19 as an adult male on the island of Terschelling (Netherlands

53 22N 05 16E).

Paired with

Left leg: lime ring with black code 4.

Right leg: green ring with white code J.

Metal ring no.6184219.

Ringed 14/5/19 as an adult female on the island of Terschelling (Netherlands

53 22N 05 16E).

Sightings 2023 Cley Marshes 5/1(DHo), 26/2(with 5 juvs)(ACh,GBo), 12/3(with 5 juvs)(JMc), 20/11(with 7 juvs)(DPW), 5/12(with 9 juvs)(only one ring code read on each bird)(DPW).

Movements Seen again on Terschelling 17/5/19. Probably present at Cley Marshes 14/12/19 and 24/1/20 but codes could not be made out, codes read there on 15/2/20 then at Salthouse Marshes 17/2/20. Seen at Terschelling 16+19/3/20, Texel (Noord-Holland, Netherlands) 2/4/20 and then at Stavstensudden (Trelleborg, Malmohus, Sweden 55 22N 13 05E) 25/11/20. Seen back again at Cley Marshes 4/12/20 then at Salthouse 8/12/20, S of Cley 17/12/20(with a brood of one), Cley Marshes 12/1/21, 23-24/2/21 (codes could not be read on the first date). Seen again in the Netherlands at Texel 30/3/21 then at Terschelling 10/4/21 – 15/5/21. Seen 21/11/21 at Cley Marshes, S of Walsey Hills 25/11/21 and Cley Marshes 21/12/21. Seen at Texel again 15/3/22-13/4/22 then at Polder Hee (Freisland, Netherlands) 17/4/22-14/5/22. Cley Marshes from 21/12/22 with a brood of 5 youngsters. Subsequently seen at Texel again 19/3/23 then Terschelling 29/3/23-18/5/23.