20250418 Osprey & Common Tern, Ranworth Broad

 

20250418 Common Tern
From electric Little Tern.

20250418 Osprey
Progressing well....

20250418 C Tern
Escorting Osprey from its fishing territory.

20250418 Great Crested Grebe
Pairs displaying, nesting and a flock of 28 nearby VC.

20250417 White Wagtail, Cley Marshes

 

20250417 White Wagtail
1st summer male.

20250417 White Wagtail

20250417 Pied Wagtail
Male yarrelli

20250417 Pied Wagtail
Female yarrelli

20250410 Buzzard Sp & Booted Eagle, Cley

 

20250410 Buzzard Sp.
In from NE over shingle ridge and carried on SW over Res.
Continous and languid action without glide.

20250410 Buzzard Sp.
Very pale underparts lacking barring.

20250410 Buzzard Sp.
Bent at the carpal joint.

20250410 Glossy Ibis
Off Serpentine and into NFWood roost this evening. 
Easy Birder....

20250410 Buzzard Sp.
P1 moult causing kink in wing.

20250420 Booted Eagle
Captured by GRGS as it flew West over the Glaven...
never to be seen again??

20250404 Black-tailed Godwit EW90583, Cley Marhses

 

20250404 Black-tailed Godwit
Female as larger than other Icelandica in flock.
No longer goes into breedinng plumag...? Due to age?
Metal: EW90583
Lt: yellow orange red.
Rt: green yellow green.

20250406 Blackwit
EW90583 
Left leg.
No sign of breeding plumage.
Ringed 20110826 Aldeburgh Suffolk. 14yrs +

Left leg: yellow over orange over red on tibia.

Right leg: green over yellow over green on tibia.

Metal ring no. EW90583

Ringed  26/8/11 as an adult female at Hazelwood Marshes, Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

Movements: Freiston Shore (Lincs) 30/10/11, Breydon Water (Norfolk) 26/2/12-25/4/12, Ramsholt (Suffolk) 17/1/13, Mistley Walls (Essex) 31/1/13, Cantley Marshes (Norfolk) 25/3/13, Breydon Water 13/4/13, Titchwell (Norfolk) 24/7/13, Frampton Marsh (Lincs) 14/8/14-29/9/14, Freiston Shore 29/9/14, Mistley Walls 11-21/1/15, Minsmere (Suffolk) 11/4/15, Freiston Shore 17/8/15, Snettisham (Norfolk) 24/8/15, Freiston Shore 29/8/15-4/10/15, Snettisham 19+29/8/15, Freiston Shore 3-4/10/16, Welney WWT (Norfolk) 4+15/12/16 and 21/4/17, Frampton Marsh 6+30/8/17, Welney 10/11/17-13/3/18, Berry Fen (Cambs) 15/4/18, Frampton Marsh 28/8/18, Welney 2+26/1/19 and 4/4/19, Frampton Marsh 26/8/19-8/9/19, Welney 1+10/11/19, Fen Drayton (Cambs) 6/3/20, Snettisham 7/8/20, Frampton Marsh 25/8/20+13/9/20, Welney 4/11/20, Breydon Water 10/2/21, Welney 13/4/21, Frampton Marsh 23/7/21-11/9/21, Breydon Water 3/11/21, Welney 7/11/21, Welches Dam (Cambs) 29/11/21, Breydon Water 13/1/22, Nene Washes (Cambs) 5-6/4/22, Breydon Water 18-29/4/22, Butt of Lewis (Outer Hebrides) 11/5/22, Frampton Marsh 11/8/22-14/9/22, Snetttisham 15/10/22, Welney 15/2/23-3/3/23, Needingworth (Cambs) 11/3/23, Fen Drayton 15-26/3/23, Nene Washes 4-14/3/23, Cley Marshes 26/4/23-5/5/23, Frampton Marsh 8/5/23 and 21/7/23-30/9/23, Minsmere (Suffolk)  7+29/4/24. Had extremely limited breeding plumage when seen at Cley in 2023 and at Minsmere in 2024.

20250326 Ring Ouzel & Hen Harrier, Roydon Common

 

20250326 Ring Ouzel
Female type.
In early morning mist and heavy dew.

20250326 Ring Ouzel
Against light, heat haze and dew evaporation, late morning.

20250326 Mandarine Duck
Santon Downham

20250321 Willow Tit, NE Norfolk

 

20250321 Willow Tit
Calling persistantly from top of tall tree.
Bib widens from chin to throat.

20250321 Willow Tit
Outer tail feather shorter...

20250321 Chiffchaff
Birds in full and loud song.

20230321 Willow Tit
Wing panel not obvious...
Loosley associated with Goldcrest untill stopping to call.

20250321 Blue Tit
Few pairs in area of damp woodland by Stream.
Long-tailed Tit flock of 10 birds and no sign of Marsh Tit...

20250321 Willow Tit
'zi-zi, taah taah taah'.

20161226 Marsh Tit 
Selbrigg Pond, but of limited use as in December.

20230403 Marsh Tit
Outer tail feather same length as others....

20230304 Marsh Tit
Sculthorpe Moor in March.

20210325 Marsh Tit

20250325 Willow Tit
Paler wing pale shows in sunlight.

20230401 Marsh Tit
Sculthorpe Moor.

20250401 Willow Tit
2 very active birds.
A third bird was persistantly calling from high above.

20250401 Willow Tit
R6 noticably shorter than tail tip.

20250319 Pallid Harrier, NE Norfolk

 

20250319 Pallid Harrier
Against very strong sunlight, initially an unidentified  silhouette in EVF...

20250319 Pallid Harrier
Strong face pattern but in shade here.

20250319 Pallid Harrier
Breast streaks fade to white belly.

20250319 Pallid Harrier
Mobbed by local Red Kite and Buzzard then soared up high....
as the Strait of Messina... those were the days.

20250319 Pallid Harrier
Very pallid cf Buzzard.

20250320 Hen Harrier
Warham Greens
5 primaries show in a rounded hand.
More contrast in the secondaries as bars easily visable.

20250320 Hen Harrier
Warham Greens

20250319 Marsh Harrier
Male twisting down onto prey.
Similar primary formula as Hen... 

20250314 Twite & Black-tailed Godwit Cley Marshes

 

20250314 Twite

20250314 Twite
Spring male with pink rump.
On ridge by Sea Pool. c12 got up flushed by Marsh Harrier.
Small as a mouse, against the light and heat haize...

20250314 Twite
Pleased with the weedy bokeh in background...

20250314 Ruff
Swan Lake.

20250314 Black-tailed Godwit 
Within the flock, a shot for the Godwit enthusiasts...

20250214 Pintail
Continually up-ending, 1/2000th to freeze head movement this close.