20250620 Eurasian Spoonbill & Black crowned Night Heron, Cley Marshes

 

20250620 E Spoonbill
Ad collecting nest material.
For a second brood?

20250620 E Spoonbill

20250620 Barn Swallow
of Bish.

20250622 Black-crowned Night Heron
Off Pats and into NFW.

20250527 Marsh Warbler, Weybourne. Purple Heron, Cley Marshes.

 

202505027 Marsh Warbler
Male in full song of endless mimicry.

20250527 Marsh Warbler
Clean pale edging to primary tips and tertials.
Long primary projection.

20250527 Purple Heron
Adult in breeding condition.
First seen over Weybourne going West.

20250527 Purple Heron
In flight over Pats and went down on Blakeney Freshes.

20250527 Purple Heron
Classic flight profile, heavy keel, thin bill and large foot bundle.

20250527 Tundra Ringed Plover
9 on Pats this afternoon.

20250530 Marsh Warbler
From the teasel clump early morn.
Tertials pale edging shows well here, cf Reed.

20250527 Marsh Warbler

20250531 Reed Warbler 
In song Stiffkey Fen.
Delivered in a relaxed chortle... unlike the full on delivery of Marsh.

20250607 Marsh Warbler
Male in song, The Skirts Cley Marshes.

20250530 Marsh Warbler
Still delivering from the teasel clump, Weybourne reedbed.
Original image over exposed and retrieved in Elements 2025.

20250526 Eurasian Curlew yellow 7J, Cley Marshes

 

20250526 Eurasian Curlew
1826hrs Lt: 7J yellow flag over orange on tibia. Rt: yellow on tibia with metal on tarsus.
Propose the female with the tags... compare bill size and shape.
Birds soon went off NW.

Info provided by www.curlewrecoveryproject.co.uk: 7J yellow was released at Wild Ken Hill in July 2022 as part of a head-starting project. She has been seen around The Wash, Lincolnshire and Norfolk and twice at Cley.

20250629
Big Black at 420mm.

20250629 Black-tailed Godwit
Rt: 3 black Polka Dots....??
French?

20250629 Balckwit
Lt: black over white over red.
Is that a metal ring on tibia...?

20250525 Booted Eagle, Kelling Estate

 

20250525 Booted Eagle
 Pale morph with central tail feathers moulted.
On British List as 343 bird ticked in February 2000, Chew Valley...

20250525 Booted Eagle
Off white upper tail coverts and pale band across wing into scapulars.

20250525 Booted Eagle
The Head of an eagle shows well here.
Gape extends back under the eye and chiselled face.
Comments on the heads of very pale miss IDed Buzzards along the Suffolk boarder are
interesting.... 'that's not the head of an Eagle....??'

20250525 Booted Eagle
Minimal kite like tail adjustments into wind.

20250525 Booted Eagle
Hanging in firm Westerly over Kelling Heath.

20250525 Garganey
Bagpuss Hide.