20261106 Russian White-fronted Goose, Langham

 

20261026 Rufous-tailed Robin, South Landing Flamborough

 

20261025 Rufous-tailed Robin & Wren
1650hrs as darkness fell into the gully on the first evening...
this was going to be a difficult photo shoot.
1/100th sec, F6.1, ISO102400...?? Manual Focus and Night Vision used.
Pulled lens back to 800mm from 1200.
This did not give any light gain. Best to shoot at 1200mm, F6.3.
Limiting max ISO to 80000 also helped with grainy noise.

20261026 Rufous-tailed Robin
Luscinia sibilans
Family of Nightingales, Common and Thrush and therefore skulks in dense veg...
1/250 sec, F6.3, ISO64000,
Night Vision used to locate subject... in the dark.
Pink legs and white nails showed well in the darkness.

20261026 Goldfinch
Some light relief from the nocturnal Rufous Robin...
Excellent sunflower crop at Bempton Cliffs with about 60 dynamic Goldfinch.
Excellent mode, ProCapSH2 burst, allows for seed positioning.

20261026 Rufous-tailed Robin
Long distance migrant from East Asia, winters in Southern China.
20 years ago will have been overlooked in Europe. All records are in recent years.

20261025 Bullfinch
Pair frequented the gully during the hours of waiting...
F6.3 and focusing practice.
Note pink reflected onto lower mandible.
Note all birds in gully were ringed, except for the Rufous-tailed.

20261026 Rufous-tailed Robin
1/200th sec, ISO64000, tried -1.7EV to lower ISO.
Better to have shot burst at 1/10th sec.
Large concave eye in smaller head than Robins. Obvious eye-ring.
Rufous tones in tail and wing feathers.

20261028 Eurasian Robin
1/10th sec, ISO32000, in early morn gloom.
Pulled back to 716mm to no effect.

20261027 Pallas's Warbler
Bempton Cliffs.

20261027 Whooper Swan
Flock of 32 off Cliffs. Appeared as a white line way out to NE.

20261024 Slender-billed Nutcracker, Mundesley

 

20261024 Slender-billed Nutcracker
Mundesley was brought to a stand still as the twitch wore on...

20261024 Slender-billed Nutcracker
Hoping to star on the telebox.

20261024 Slender-billed Spotted Nutcracker
The twitch was rapidly becoming a duff event this morning.
At about this time the local bus service was stuck in the road.

20261024 Spotted Nutcraker
Was this the largest British Twitch ever...??
Once Beama started policing the road... its time to leave.

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.
'Notable Picture of the week' in BirdGuides Newsletter.

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.

20261101 Isabelline Wheatear
Dried out pool, NOA field KWM.
Bird hunched up as cold breeze, but mobile and dynamic

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 & East Runton

 

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.

20260103 

20260929 Yellow-browed Warbler, Morston & Cley Marshes

 

20261003 Yellow-browed Warbler
Central hides clump.
Found by the owners of a large Supermarket chain....
1602mm, Small Black with MC20!!... GRGS?
HiRes image in acrylic available.

20260929 Yellow-browed Warbler
1 of 4 birds about the village.
A country wide invasion.
3 at Stiffkey Fen on 1st Oct and 1 at Morston Pond conservation project, deep in Willows.

20260930 Song Thrush
Birds moving inland all along the coast.
78 inland over Cley Res within 1 hour. Average flock size 10 birds.

20261001 Treecreeper
With LtTit flock Stiffkey Fen.
Back lighting at its best...