20230907 Brown Booby, Tees Mouth Cleveland

 

20230909 Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
Adult Female.

20230909 Brown Booby
Translucent glassey eyes appeared not to have an iris...

20230709 Brown Booby

20230830 Norfolk Dun Booby...

20230907 Brown Booby
Bird in bag by 1000hrs, but distant views on shipping channel buoys from North Gare Sands.
Better from South Gare Breakwater in background.
Bird would drop off buoy and join Gull feeding melees in Tees Mouth.

20230909 Brown Booby

20230909 Brown Booby
As with all pelecaniforms, sulids have totipalmate feet, all four toes joined with copious webbing.
The short inner 'hind' toes nail is obscured by feathers.

20230909 Brown Booby

20230916 Northern Gannet
Moribund juvenile Blakeney Spit. Is this avian flu...?
Inner small fourth toe with webbing.

20230904 Forster's Tern, Arne Dorset

 

20230904 Forster's Tern

20230904 Forster's Tern
Pale orange legs & feet with darker tarsus.

20230904 Forster's Tern

20230902 White tailed Sea Eagle
Arne Bay with Poole in background.
The bird in flight appeared in all shots not to have a right foot...

20230818 Booted Warbler, Blakeney Point

 

20230818 Booted Warbler
Damp tail tip.
Darker shafts in tertials obvious.

20230818 E Dotterel
Moribund juvenile nr Watch House.

20230818 Booted Warbler
Hippo's bill stretch or yawn.
Back lighting is best...?

20230818 Booted Warbler
Iduna vertical stretch & pot belly profile.
Darker crown sides before the eye showed well in every pose.

20230818 Pied Flycatcher
20 plus about the Point.

20230818 Icterine Warbler
1st aut in garden.

20230818 Booted Warbler
Wide based Hippos bill.
Orange glow to legs as with most passerines when back lit,
and showing darker feet hence booted name...
Arguably the most worthless name in all ornithology.

20230822 C Redstart
1st winter male, NE Norfolk.
White tips forming unusual collar.

20200921 C Redstart
Fresh post breeding male also with white collar and central throat stripe.

20230804 E Beavers, Sculthorpe Moor

 

20230804 E Beaver
Adult with undamaged tail.
Silently appeared on path from dyke.

20230804 E Beaver
2 very long eyebrow hairs over each eye.

20230804 E Beaver Kit
 Two kits raised in first year, a great success story....!

20230804 E Beaver kit
Grazing on the path.
2 Short pale eyebrow hairs.

20230804 E Beaver kit
Drying out on the path.

20230804 E Beaver channel
in vegetation to dyke.
Cut branches and tail flattened base.