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Friday, 12 December 2025

20251212 Lesser Crested Tern & Northern Chiffchaff, Exe Estuary Devon

20251212 Lesser Crested Tern
Bird flew up estuary and landed on mud bank towards Lympstone Barracks.
Preferred to perch on low objects and buoys. 
Shot at 1680mm.

20251212 LC Tern
Shot taken with 1.4x telecon and x2 digi-zoom, effective 3360mm...
Very useful for in the field ID but much frowned upon by Photographers. 
And some Twitchers...
Bird 1.5Km off Turf at this point as above.


20251212 LC Tern
The bird, all of a sudden, flew over to Turf's buoys as billed...
The bill showed orange-ish with sunlight through it.




20251212 Lesser Crested Tern
Take off from one of the closer pink buoys.


20251212 Lesser Crested Tern
 Yellow bill becoming deeper towards base.

20251212 LC Tern


20251212 LC Tern
Paler grey rump.

20251212 Turf Quay
The bird is on the nearer green buoy.
28mm equiv.


20251213 Exe Estuary
Twitchers arriving on the fateful misty Saturday morn...
Greyscale.

20251213 Exe Estuary
Mist with colour.
Ice formed outside and inside the tent... after one very cold clear night the bird had gone.

20251213 Northern Chiffchaff
c10 in Warrens Carr. Palest bird shown.

20251213 Northern Chiffchaff
Same bird as above.


Friday, 5 December 2025

20251205 Common Eider, Dunbar Harbour

 

20251205 C Eider
8 males displaying to 3 females in the harbour.

20251205 C Eider

20251205 C Eider
Female.


20251205 Snow Bunting & Rock Pipit John Muir Country Park, East Lothian

 

20251205 Snow Bunting
3 of 5 on Spike Island.

20251205 Snow Bunting
Some males show black primary coverts...

20251205 Snow Bunting
Ad female on left.

20251205 Rock Pipit
Flock of c20 Belhaven Bay feeding on tide line.
As Scanda flock on Norfolk coast.


20251205 Bridge to Nowhere
Belhaven Bay with The Bass in the background.

Wednesday, 26 November 2025

20251126 Otter & Goosander, Bayfield Lake

 

20251126 Otter
'The cat's whiskers' top shot of all time...


20251126 Goosander
Lone male coming out of eclipse plumage.
In some shots fishing line can be seen around the birds bill.

20251125 Ruff
22 birds roosting by Iron Rd along with 10 Lapwing and 5 E Curlew.


20251126 Goosander



20251126 Otter
Family group of 4. No sign of Pike parts.