20210613 Marsh Warbler, KWMeadows

 

20200613 Marsh Warbler
Singing from cover, now 80% volume and content effort from 30% sub-song delivery yesterday.

20210615 Marsh Warbler
90% volume and manic delivery, fast and furious solos today.
Showing better and holding territory.

20210615 Marsh Warbler
Kindly submitted by RC, captured without reed interference and with great skill...
Using wazzo Sony gear, Sony A7riii with 200-600 lens. . Note the difference in white balance effect compared with above shots.

20210615 Marsh Warbler
Sang from deep reed.

20210509 Grey-headed Wagtail, West Runton

 

20210509 Grey-headed Wagtail Motacilla flava thunbergi
Crippling male...!!
With flock of c25 Yellow Wagtail in cattle paddocks.

20210509 Yellow Wagtail M f flavissima

20210509 Grey-headed Wagtail

20210505 Common Cuckoo, hepatic female

 

20210505 Common Cuckoo
Hepatic or rufous morph female.

20210505 C Cuckoo
Hepatic female.
Note effect of electronic shutter and panning.

20210505 C Cuckoo
Blueish grey male.
Note turquoise sheen to outer secondaries.

20210505 C Cuckoo

20210423 Ring Ouzel & Barn Owl, Hindolveston. Female Ouzel, Kelling WM

 

20210423 Barn Owl
Protesting to the naked ape.
'Give Way to re-wilding in Norfolk'... or is it too late?
A few ancient hedges and fields in the Hindolveston area...

20210423 Barn Owl

20210423 Ring Ouzel
2 males of 7 on private pitch and putt field, packed with wild flowers.
Not as a commercial GC...

20210423 Ring Ouzel
5 birds down together, only one browner female type in flock.
Also one Fieldfare associating with Ouzels.
Pair of Mistle Thrush and several Songs put in an appearance.
The local Blackbirds were somewhat rattled.

20210423 Fieldfare
More thickset and stocky than the often slim looking Ouzels.

https://tomwhileybirdart.blogspot.com/2019/04/20190422-ring-ouzel-passage-salthouse.html
Flock of 27 in April 2019. Seen to fly off to the SE??
Flocks often going ESE in North Norfolk in spring suggesting they cross North Sea back into Europe,

and then head Northwards...?

20210505 Ring Ouzel
Pleased to catch up with a female at KWM.
How many are missed in the shadows....?

20210505 Ring Ouzel
Note damaged tail. Feathers looked as if they were snapped off.