20261024 Slender-billed Nutcracker, Mundesley

 

20261024 Slender-billed Nutcracker

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20261019 Desert Wheatear, Wells-next-the Sea & Cley Marshes

 

20261019 Desert Wheatear
Better comp with the line of castles in frame.
Queen of the kasbahs.

20261019 Desert Kasbah Wheatear

20261029 Desert Wheatear
Bashed wasp and pulled wings off.
Then swallowed whole.

20261029 Desert Wheatear

20261019 Desert Wheatear
Male in song on the beach pillbox, Cley Marshes.

20261023 Desert Wheatear
Still on Cley Beach.

20261024 Desert Wheatear

20261020 Isabelline Wheatear, Winterton Dunes

 

20261020 Isabelline Wheatear

20261020 Isabelline Wheatear
A more dynamic and butch species than Desert or Northern.
Hacked at the sandy turf as a thrush,

20261020 Russian White-fronted Goose
80+ with Pink-foot flock, Horsey. Many juveniles.

20261020 Pink-footed Goose
Landing into a strong wind easily accomplished, walk onto the grass.

20261019 Bluethroat, KWM

 

20261019 Bluethroat
Adult female...

20261019 Bluethroat

20261019 Coues's Arctic Redpoll, Holkham Pines

 

20261019 Mealy Redpoll
100+ flock favouring large Silver Birch trees E of the Dell.
Note large pale Mealy with dark upper-tail coverts.

20261019 Coues's Arctic Redpoll
Snow ball pose.

20261019 Coues's Arctic Redpoll

20261005 Caspian Gull & Peregrine, Cley Marshes

 

20261005 Peregrine
Juvenile hunting about Swan Lake.
Orange darvik on lt leg.

20261005 Caspian Gull
Classic lanky 1st winter on the new Whittwell scrape.

20261005 Caspian Gull
Classic hefty 1st winter with retained juvenile upperparts.
Pats Pool roost.

20261008 Caspian Gull
Adult winter.
Smaller plump female type with rounder head.
Note poor primary spike.

20261008 Caspian Gull
1st winter.
Ice white head.

20261010 Caspian Gull
1st winter, East Runton CP.
Classic but not massive. A well rounded individual.

20261003 Short-eared Owl, Cley Marshes

 

20261003 The eyes of Owldor & the Haddock Curry of Doom...

20261003 Short-eared Owl
Spent 30mins attempting to hunt from this telegraph pole.
Small Black:1600mm, 1/200th, ISO6400.

20261003 Short-eared Owl
Warming by the West Bank Sluice.

20261003 Short-eared Owl
Pro-capture set here but the bird flew back away from camera.
A higher burst rate is also required, say SH2.
Surprisingly OMSystems have just released firmware to upgrade the Big Black to 50fps in SH2 mode.
Having tested this, 25fps is enough for most BIF... 50fps of use on specific photo shoots.
Flew over Cricket Marsh and then onto telegraph pole...!?!

20261003 Short-eared Owl
Dozing in the evening sun.

20261003 Near Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Cley Marshes

 

20261003 
Rt side.
Hint of yellow at rear of supercilium...
Yellow underwing coverts show around bastard wing.
Ref: grey1st winter female Yellow Wagtail by Lewington, Rare Birds of B&E.

20261003 
Lt side.
Pale yellow in vent sides...
1st winter female beema...??
No yellow in tertail edges on this side either.
Ref: A putative 'Eastern Yellow Wagtail' in Devon,  Abbott P & Haig G, Birding World.

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