20210714 Wood Sandpiper & Ruff from OPEN centre hides

 

20210714 Ruff

20210714 Wood Sandpiper
Adult summer.
Dawkes still shut, nesting Swalllow & Pied Wagtail.
Reed Warbler hunting spiders in other 2 hides. 

20210713 Commmon Buzzard, over Elsden Close, Holt

 

20210713 CBuzzard
Dark morph juvenile soared low over the estate. 
Slowly circled low off to SE.
Reported over bypass by observer in car at this time??
Secondaries nipped in at body on parallel wing with long arm.

20210713  CBuzzard
Broad black trailing edge to remiges.
Juvs do not have the long tails of ads so proportions appear as C Buzzard.
Yellow base and black tip to bill of juvenile very diagnostic...

20210713  CBuzzard
Fine barring on white tail with darker central feathers.
Unusual for dark morph in that upper tail coverts are not paler than rump,
so no U shape on this bird.
Also only small paler inner primary patches on upperwing.
Warm brown morph juveniles are the most similar form to adult C Buzzard.

20210704 Pacific Golden Plover NWT Cley Marshes

 

20210704 Pacific Golden Plover
'The bird left Hickling Broad early morning heading North and will soon pitch up at Cley..... '
And here it is.

20210704 Pacific Golden Plover
Serpentine, Cley Marshes.
Front cover of the CBC Newsletter.

20210625 Collared Pratincole, Black-winged Stilt NWT Hickling Broad

 

20210625 Collared Pratincole
Over Brendon's Marsh

20210625 Black-winged Stilt
Pair in residence, male foreground.
Brendon's Marsh.

20210625 Collard Pratincole

20210625 Collard Pratincole
Processed from jpeg with Depth Blur.