20170516 Turtle Dove RSPB Titchwell

Turtle Dove

In the car park and very confiding following a long lurking period.

Is this the ultimate TDove shot?

Turtle Dove

Is this the ultimate TDove shot?

20170502 Turtle Dove & Yellowhammer Choosley

Turtle Dove

Collecting spilt grain on concrete pad.

Turtle Dove

One of 3 birds on ploughed field.

Turtle Dove

3 birds just in from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Arguably the last 3 in Norfolk to make it through the Mediterranean zone.

Turtle Dove

Yellowhammer

Resplendent male

Corn bunting in song here also.

20170408 Pied Wagtail, Morston Quay

Pied Wagtail

Male about the picnic tables.

20170402 Stonechat colour ringed, Kelling Heath

Stonechat

History of the bird:- Orange/Green; Black/Metal ring no.Z057442;
Nestling 4/4; Home Heath, King's Forest; TL823731; 03/05/2016
Not reported previously so the ringer is especially pleased to learn she
has survived and potentially breeding.

Stonechat

Fortunately saved this shot which clearly shows black ring over the metal, not obvious in previous shot.
She has paired with a very bright black and white male on the Heath.
And by the end of May, John Wagstaff says that the C-R female Stonechat  from Thetford Forest that nested on Kelling Heath had at least three youngsters fledge successfully from her first brood.

1st summer female Stonechat
Kelling Heath
Many thanks to Stonecahat consultant Noel Elms.