20231024 Grey Phalarope, Kessingland Dunes

 

20231024 Grey Phalarope
1st winter bird.

20231024 Grey Phalarope

20231024 Grey Phalarope
Semi-palmated and lobbed forward 3 toes!

20231025 Rook
In prime non-breeding plumage, early morn, Cley Res.

20231004 Semipalmated Sandpiper, Frampton Marsh

 

20231004 Semipalmated Sandpiper
Juvenile plumage.

20231004 Semipalmated Sandpiper
'typical' juvenile plumage.

20231004 Semipalmated Sandpiper
Dark stripe down forecrown joins dark lores over bill.

20190720 Semipalmated Sandpiper
Adult, breeding plumage, Titchwell.

20190720

20190720 Semipalmated Sandpiper
Boby size as Dunlin here but with smaller Stintish head and bill...

20190720 Semipalmated Sandpiper
Adult breeding.
Missing tertials. Has arrow heads onto flanks...??

20231001 Wilson's Phalarope
1st winter plumage, NPoint Pools.

20210712 Western Semipalmated Sandpiper
Adult breeding, with as good palmation as Semip...
Should be renamed in full as above.
American bird names...???

20210726 Western Sandpiper
Inner palmation smaller than outer in both species.

20231004 Semipalmated Sandpiper
Clean white underparts of a juvenile.
Running with juvenile Little Stint and adult Dunlin.
Early morn twilight shot.

20231004 Semipalmated Sandpiper
With well marked juvenile Little Stint.

20231001 Wilson's Phalarope, North Point Pools

 

20231001

20231001 Wilson's Phalarope
From jpeg.

20231001 Wilson's Phalarope
From RAW.

20230930 Blue-winged Teal, Tophill Low Nature Res, Yorkshire Water.

 

20230930 Garganey
Female type foreground and probable male eclipse.
Excellent reserve for duck ID.

20230930 Blue-winged Teal
Female foreground with thinly and broken white tips to greater coverts.
Eclipse male at rear. Note solid darker crown.
Both have split pale eyerings not seen on Gargeney or Teal.

20230930 Blue-winged Teal
Male chased female and showed white bar to greater coverts and stroger turquoise green
speculum.

20230930 Blue-winged Teal
Semi-spatulate bill more so than Gargeney's and a nod towards Shoveler's

20230930 Blue-winged Teal
Male showing full wing pattern.
Very broad white greater coverts bar.

20230930 Eurasian Teal

19890919 Blue-winged Teal
First find of American Duck at Brandon Marsh.
From greater coverts pattern probably a female...
BritIsles List 231, those were the days...? Conservation of a small reserve in the midlands.