20251028 Water Pipit, Cley Marshes

 

20251028 Water Pipit
Without Depth Blur.

20251028 Water Pipit
With minimal Depth Blur.

20251028 Water Pipit
With Depth Blur.

20251028 Water Pipit
Walked effortlessly over the detritus about Bish hide, Richardson's Scrape.

20251028 The Robert Gillmor Hide
 Arrives 12 years on from major winter flooding...
which wiped out the original North Hide.
Thankfully a new era in hide design dawns, mobile and floats.

20251028 Long-tailed Duck
Zoomed West inshore, ID realised too late...

20251028 Jack Snipe
...and the now infamous white feather... for directions by the school teacher to the bird??

20251030 Red Phalarope
Spinning with female Shoveler.
Pope's Pool from Walsey Hills... 1680mm, F11

20251031 Fieldfare
Salthouse. Many overnight arrivals.

20251031 Starling
Numbers increasing each night into reedbed roost.

20251026 Glaucous Gull, Weybourne

 

20251026 Glaucous Gull
In rain and overcast grey, with strong Westerly wind.

20251026 Glaucous Gull
1st Winter.

20251028 Glaucous Gull
Flying along Cley Beach in sunshine.

20251021 Black-faced Bunting, Spurn

 

20251021 Spurn Point
As Filey Brigg haven't made to the end as yet...

20251021 Black-faced Bunting
Initially skulking in verge of track.

20251021 Black-faced Bunting
470th British Isles Lifer.
Does skull ossification effect feather zones, and therefore can be seen in the field?

20251021 Black-faced Bunting
The bird cautiously walked out onto the road but then a couple of Bate Diggers on electric bikes
came along and flushed the twitch and the bird...

20251021 Black-faced Bunting
Pale pink bill with slightly greyer upper mandible adds to the plain faced effect.
The very pale yellow ochre sub-moustachial patch being the most striking feature.

20251021
Lacked grey in ear coverts, face and neck sides, only detectable in the nape.
Probable 1st winter female.

20251021
As above without depth blur...
Pink legs and feet noticeable and strode well on the deck.

20251021 Black-faced Bunting
Bird perched and in shade became more Reed Bunting like.
Note crown feathers raised.

20191010 Reed Bunting
Cley reedbed, here tail flicking.
Dark grey in bill, legs and feet.

20181029 Reed Bunting
Blakeney Spit

20251018 Yellow-browed Warbler, Stiffkey Fen

20251018 Yellow-browed Warbler
Possibly the Xmas card...

 

20251018 Yellow-browed Warbler

20251014 Long-eared Owl
Warham Greens.
Had it crash landed in the Salt Marsh or even the sea...?
Only just made it.

20251014 Tawny Owl
The finest example of a rufous bird.
Warham Greens.

20251015 Yellow-legged Gull & Caspian Gull to roost, Cley Marshes

 

20251015 Yellow-legged Gull
Classic adult but not the largest, a compact bird.
Cley is surely the top British site for Gull roost shots...

20251015 Caspian Gull
Classic 1st winter, rangy and large.

20251015 Caspian Gull
1st winter in fading light.
Big Blacks 95mm objective gathers light as an F4...
here at 1680mm F10.

20241015 Herring Gull
Aberrant form...?
Ticker's tweet of the day: 'Big Gulls a nightmare really.
RGM taught me long ago that the more you know the less you know.
If they're not aberrants they're hybrids.'

20251013 Barred Warbler & Blackbird, Friary Hills

 

20251013 Blackbird
Neighbours and Notables have noticed the loss of birds in their gardens.
Many have been scraggy about the head as here.
Blackbird disease, Usutu Virus?

20251013 Barred Warbler
Bottom hedge Friary Hills.

20251013 Barred Warbler

20251013 Garden Warbler
A species that often puts in an appearance in the same hedge as Barred...

20251013 Eurasian Curlew
Brackish Lagoon, Cley.

20251009 White-throated Needletail, Filey Brigg

 

20251009 White-throated Needletail
Over Filey Bay from Filey Brigg....!!
ISO 12800.
Interesting to note the bird was re-located at Bempton Cliffs yesterday by a tour group,
as is often the case..,
due to the excessive amount of time they spend standing around in the field...

20251009 Sunset Filey Bay
'The day had been retrieved Jump Start Eric'.
Thanks to a top British twitcher who galloped by at Bempton Cliffs shouting out 'Needletail off Filey Brigg'...!!
10mins latter the bird was in the bag....
Said Twitcher also galloped up onto the Brigg..!
following 4 dips of this species. What a grip back?!

20251010 White-throated Needletail
Over Scarborough Castle from Royal Albert Park.

20251010 Wt Needletail
Translucent inner webs of remiges and rectrices.

20251009 White-throated Needletail
Way out over Bay and zooming back to Filey.
Evening sunlight catching the off white back patch here.

20251010 Wt Needletail
Upperwings shows as iridescent bluish-green.
At almost all flight angles the large white throat patch could be seen.

20251007 Whinchat & Whooper swan, Cley Marshes

 

20251007 Whinchat
1st winter with closed left foot, Whatling Water.

20251007 M Harrier
Yellow FL over Popes to Harrier Man...

20251007 Whooper Swan 
3 in Pats roost this even.

20251007 Peregrine
Large juvenile female frequenting the Marshes.

2025107 Whinchat
Shot supplied by GRGS and his FF Nikon.
Note weight of bird on rt leg.

20251006 Greater Short-toed Lark, Snettisham Beach

 

20251005 Pink-footed Goose
Leucistic bird with flock of 20 on Simmonds.