20250927 Common Redstart, Holkham Pines

 

2020927 Kestrel on sunrise
For the raptor connoisseur. 

20250927 C Redstart
2 males chasing about scrub.

20250927 C Redstart
1st winter male. Type not well depicted in field guides.

20250927 C Redstart

20250925 Red-backed Shrike, Morston Greens

 

20250925 Barnacle Goose
Onto Bull Marsh.

20250925 Chiffchaff
Walsey Hills, with a weak 'heeet' call.

20250923 Lesser Grey Shrike, Winterton

 

20020526 Lesser Grey Shrike
A bright male at Dawlish Warren.
Brit Isles Lifer 357.

20250923 Lesser Grey Shrike

20250923 LG Shrike
Not in flight mode nor pro-capture.
When will the switch be made quick enough...??

20250923 LG Shrike
Less processing is more...?
Adult female with partial mask on forehead.

20250923 LG Shrike
Pale pinkish lower mandible base, a sign of immaturity...
A few barred scapulars remain also.

20250922 Ruddy Shelduck, Cley Marshes

20250922 Ruddy Shelduck
Bull Marsh with 5 Egyptian and 20 Pink-foot nearby... provenance??

20250922 Ruddy Shelduck
Blueish green speculum sheen.
 Very similar wing pattern to the Egyptian Shelduck... not a goose.

20250922 Ruddy Shelduck
1921hrs into roost with c400 Pink-foot...!
Sunset 1845hrs, Night Vision set and first outing for the Big Black in the dark.

 

20251001 Ruddy Shelduck
1833hrs into roost on Pats with Greylag this evening.
Ruddy Shelduck sightings in Britain relate to individuals from the naturalised and
established population on the Near Continent...
In this shot the bird does seem unsure of its status in the British Isles...

20250914 Pectoral Sandpiper, Salthouse Marshes

 

202509118 Pectoral Sandpiper
2 birds on pool by Iron Rd.

20250918 Pectoral Sandpiper
Iron Rd.

20250918 Pectoral Sandpiper
Following a low pass by Marsh Harrier the birds shoot out of veg cover onto islands.

20250918 Pectoral Sandpiper

20250918 Greenshank
Shake following bathing.

20250918 Curlew Sandpiper
Flock of 12 + 1 Dunlin dropped in. 1634hrs, Simmonds.

20250918 Pectoral Sandpiper

20111001 Pectoral Sandpiper
Marazion Beach, Cornwall.
Lumix G1 & Sigma lens at 1189mm.

20111001 Pectoral Sandpiper

20250915 Artic Skua & Manx Shearwater, Cley Beach

 

20250915 Arctic Skua
Under-parts, Intermediate phase adult.

20250915 Arctic Skua
Intermediate phase upper-parts, hunting off Cley Beach.

20250915 Arctic Skua
Dark phase adult.
Cley Beach at the moment is the photo op site to test your set up for BIF.

20250916 Manx Shearwater
Thin passage West.

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...

20250917 Arctic Skua
Intermediate adult resting on shingle this evening.

20250917 Arctic Skua
The deep blackish-brown under-wing coverts with minimal contrast with secondaries.

20250917 Arctic Skua
Dark phase juvenile flew up off beach with above adult.

20250917 Arctic Skua

20250912 Garganey, Cley Marshes

 

20250912 Garganey
Loafing on Whitwell Scrape.

20250912 Garganey

20250912 Garganey
Grey upper-wing coverts of a female.

20250912 Garganey
F20 to get both birds this close in focus...ish

20250912 Curlew Sandpiper
Processed from an equiv 2400mm image. 1200 x2 digi zoom.

20250912 Whimbrel

20250912 Kestrel

20250909 E Honey Buzzard, Waxham

 

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
Low over the Dunes.
Intermediate - Dark morph juvenile.
Note barring in the axillaries, paler undertail coverts and greater underwing coverts.

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
Sea Palling beyond.

20250909 E Honey Buzzard

20250909 Med Gull
40 loafing on sea off Waxham. 
60+ on stubble fields early morn. The Commonest gull in the area...

20250909 Waxham, The Great Barn, Hall & Church
A mysterious place...

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
Returned to bramble patch and appeared to be sunning... 
Wings slightly open.

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
Taken from Waxham Rd at 2400mm through midday heat haze and 200m away.
Note dark long tail with white tip.

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
A large dark eye in an open face, without the eye-brow of Common Buzzard.

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
Upperparts shot. Tail coverts patch Off white but noticeable at range. 

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
Glided around Dunes with deep elastic wingbeats.
Ticker's tweet of the day: 'we have looked up the E and its does stand for European,
the official name this week'...