20250125 Lesser White-fronted Goose, Ken Hill Marshes

 

20250125 Lesser White-fronted Goose
Shot from Beach Rd upon arrival, flock flying to South end of Marshes.

202501225 LWFGoose
One Russian WF had joined the flock.

20250125 LWFGoose & RWFGoose

20250125 LWFGoose

20250125 LWFGoose

20250114 Glaucous Gull, Old Hunstanton

 

20250114 Feral Pigeon
Much Peregrine prey about cliff, also Fulmar, and Waders on shoreline...
Ideal nesting location but for disturbance in the summer months.
Last nested in about 1815 and birds have roosted on the cliffs more recently, 
surely to return...?

20250114 Glaucous Gull
1st winter loafing on tideline.
Image from 100% frame shot.

20250114 Glaucous Gull
Image from in camera x2 crop... 200%.
Let the camera do the work?

20250114 Glaucous Gull

20250114 Sanderling
Abundant and tame on Old Hunstanton Beach.

20250114 Red Kite
Pre-roost gathering on Grimston Warren.
25 counted into woods.
2 male Hen Harriers into Roydon Roost very late and too dark...

20250114 Glaucous Gull

20250107 Tundra Bean Goose & Greenland Whitefronted Goose, Saxlingham Norfolk

 

20250107 Tundra Bean Goose
Head of gander is larger and even more square than the goose, and Pink-foot's.

20250107 Tundra Bean Goose
Portriate of the pair.

20250107 Tundra Bean Goose
Significantly longer and deeper bill than Pink-foots.

20250107 Glossy Ibis
Stiffkey Flood.

20250108 Greenland White-fronted Goose
Side by side comparison supplied by SJMG using 'the Big White' 150-400mm x1.25, x2 telecon.
Equivalent to optically 2000mm in old money...
Some reach and some exceptional quality!!
Note against a bright near white backdrop.
Note Dx0 processing used here.

20250108 Greenland White-fronted Goose
300mm F4 x2 telecon. Equivalent to optically 1200mm...
Note straight forward Adobe processing used here.
Mainly a lack of in the field magnification, so time to look at the 150-600mm Big Black.

20250108 Greenland White-fronted Goose

20250108 Greenland White-fronted Goose

20250108 Greenland White-fronted Goose
Slightly more bulky than Pink-foot whereas Russian W-front is equal in size.

20250108 Greenland White-fronted Goose
Flew in with Pink-foot flock late morning.

20250108 Pink-footed Goose

Ref: J Kemp. ID of Greenland White-fronted Goose. Birding World 2001.

20250104 Green Sandpiper
Wintering bird at Letheringsett Ford.

20241231 American Yellow Warbler, Leybourne Lakes Country Park, Snodland, Kent

 

20241231 American Yellow Warbler
Squeezed in a great bird on the last day of 2024, making 9 BritIsles Lifers this year,
 twice the recent average. A late rush. Clinical day twitch...

20241231 A Yellow Warbler
1st winter male.
Diffused with cadmium yellow throughout.

20241231 A Yellow Warbler
Olive green tones in upperparts.
Pale base to lower mandible and pale brown streaks restricted to upper right of breast
donote 1st winter male.

20241231 American Yellow Warbler
Bird spent most of its time in the Sewage Works, an excellent food supply.
Infrequently showed well in scrub along dyke.

20241231 A Yellow Warbler
Black eye in a very plain face indicative of species.

20241231 American Yellow Warbler
Species first seen on 17th April 1998, Boy Scout Sanctuary, Texas.
262 species in 2 weeks, arguably the greatest trip of all time.

20241231 A Yellow Warbler
Diagnostic yellow inner web in tail feathers shows in this preening shot.
Note white edging to secondary tips.

20241231 A Yellow Warbler

20241231 A Yellow Warbler
Yellow throughout... A 1st winter female is a pale greyish olive overall,
 a different ID proposition.