Saturday, 29 June 2024

20240629 Black-crowned Night Heron, Roseate Tern & Short-eared Owl, Cley Marshes

 

20240629 Bc Night Heron
Leaving NFWood for the 2nd time and joined 3 Little Egret...
Or is this a 2nd bird of the morning...

20240629 Bc Night Heron
Perched in NFWood beside group of Little Egret.

20240629 BcNight Heron
Flew West high with 2 Little Egret.

20240639 Roseate Tern

20240630 Roseate Tern
With Common and Sanwich Tern Arnolds Marsh.

20240630 Roseate Tern
with 2 Sandwich Tern

20240707 Short-eared Owl
Adult Salthouse Marshes.

20240707 Short-eared Owl

Tuesday, 11 June 2024

20240611 Osprey, NWT Ranworth Broad

 

20240611 Osprey
Pair on nest platform.

20240611 Osprey
Low over a Ranworth road, looking up at soaring Marsh Harrier.
This bird has a coloured darvik on rt leg.

20240611 Grey Heron
Juveniles on flooded road as water levels still high.

20240611 Spotted Redshank
Brendens Marsh Hickling Broad.

20240611 Osprey
Low over a Ranworth road. 

20240628 Great Crested Grebe
Sucessful breeding season on Ranworth Broad.
Shot from electric boat trip around broad. £9.00

20240628 Osprey 
Ranworth Broad from boat.
Always worth a boat trip...

20240628 Kingfisher
Male fishing dyke.

20240628 Ranworth floating VC

20240628 Great Crested Grebe
Pair at floating nest way out from bank and attatched to a few twiggs...


Thursday, 6 June 2024

20240606 Bridled Tern, Coquet Island, Northumberland

 

20240606 Bridled Tern

20240606 Bridled Tern

20240606 Bridled Tern

20240606 Bridled Tern

20240606 Bridled Tern


Tuesday, 4 June 2024

20240604 American Black Tern, NT Long Nanny, Northumberland

 

20240604 American Black Tern
Darker grey upperparts with a white leading edge to the wings.
American Black Tern was first recorded in Britain in 1999, when a juvenile spent nine days at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, in early October. There have been just seven records since, all of autumn juveniles. In Northumberland, there is one previous record, a brief offshore visitor to St Mary's Island on 7 October 2019.

20240604 A Black Tern
2 eggs seen in the nest.

20240605 American Black Tern Chlidonias surinamensis
Carbon black head and body to rear of flank.

20240605 American Black Tern
Female.

20240605 American Black Tern
Paired with male Arctic Tern...

20240604 Arctic Tern
On Nigella's nest spike.

20240606 A Black Tern
Change over at the nest. Male Arctic was reluctant to leave...
3 eggs were laid and incubated, but none hatched...

20240605 American Black Tern
Leading in white.


20190614 Black Tern
June bird at Cley in very dull conditions.
No white leading edge to wing.