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20250925 Barnacle Goose Onto Bull Marsh. |
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20250925 Chiffchaff Walsey Hills, with a week 'heeet' call. |
Wildlife Painter and Photographer. Landscape and Portrait Commissions undertaken. Email: tom.whiley@live.com Olympus and Lumix Micro Four Thirds system user since Jan 2011..................... All images copyright of Tom Whiley.
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20020526 Lesser Grey Shrike A bright male at Dawlish Warren. Brit Isles Lifer 357. |
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20250923 Lesser Grey Shrike |
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20250923 LG Shrike Not in flight mode nor pro-capture. When will the switch be made quick enough...?? |
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20250923 LG Shrike Less processing is more...? Adult female with partial mask on forehead. |
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20250923 LG Shrike Pale pinkish lower mandible base, a sign of immaturity... A few barred scapulars remain also. |
20250915 Arctic Skua Under-parts, Intermediate phase adult. |
20250915 Arctic Skua Intermediate phase upper-parts, hunting off Cley Beach. |
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20250915 Arctic Skua Dark phase adult. Cley Beach at the moment is the photo op site to test your set up for BIF. |
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20250916 Manx Shearwater Thin passage West. |
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20250916 Manx Shearwater A photographic challenge at mid-range. Use S-AF+MF as OM1 not consistent with subject tracking. 1.4x telecon required next time... |
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20250917 Arctic Skua Intermediate adult resting on shingle this evening. |
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20250917 Arctic Skua The deep blackish-brown under-wing coverts with minimal contrast with secondaries. |
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20250917 Arctic Skua Dark phase juvenile flew up off beach with above adult. |
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20250917 Arctic Skua |
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20250909 E Honey Buzzard Low over the Dunes. Intermediate - Dark morph juvenile. Note barring in the axillaries, paler undertail coverts and greater underwing coverts. |
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20250909 E Honey Buzzard Sea Palling beyond. |
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20250909 E Honey Buzzard |
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20250909 Med Gull 40 loafing on sea off Waxham. 60+ on stubble fields early morn. The Commonest gull in the area... |
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20250909 Waxham, The Great Barn, Hall & Church A mysterious place... |
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20250909 E Honey Buzzard Returned to bramble patch and appeared to be sunning... Wings slightly open. |
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20250909 E Honey Buzzard Taken from Waxham Rd at 2400mm through midday heat haze and 200m away. Note dark long tail with white tip. |
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20250909 E Honey Buzzard A large dark eye in an open face. |
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20250909 E Honey Buzzard Upperparts shot. Tail coverts patch Off white but noticeable at range. |
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20250907 Black-shouldered Kite Once again a crippling bird but just under 1/2 a click away. Best clarity at F10 here. Use F11 at these ranges in future... |
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20250907 BS Kite Flight shot reminiscent of July 2023... |
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20250907 Black-s Kite Length 31-35cm as a Kestrel. |
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20250907 BS Kite Of note is the grey primaries of the upper-wing which are black on the under-wing, a diagnostic flight pattern. |
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20250907 BS Kite 2nd bite of the cherry required... |
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20250907 C Crane The necessary Crane flight shot required on each visit to Hickling... |