Saturday 23rd January and the usual crew decided to head off to Flamborough Head, on the Yorkshire coast, first of all, to hopefully see three, yes three wintering Richard’s Pipit. It is a rare event to have multiple numbers of this species overwintering at one site, even in autumn it would be unusual, so these birds […]
Whilst watching the juvenile Glaucous Gull on Saturday 16th January at Jackson’s Landing, Hartlepool, I couldn’t resist the opportunity of photographing an array of young Herring Gulls, in various ages of plumage. From 1st winter through to adults and also, most probably, of the two sub-species that we get in Britain during the winter. The
Well, at long last I was able to get the camera out and take some pictures. Saturday 16th January, Glyn, Richard and myself spent the day in Cleveland, around Hartlepool and Saltholme, favourite areas of ours. Side-tracking slightly, “Birders” are always trying to find ways and means of abbreviating birds names, so here’s a few
For some reason my “Birding Year 2016” has got off to a slow start. Little Photography so far this year, primarily due to the really poor weather, with endless rain and grey skies. The last two weekends have been dreadful and despite taking out my cameras, so far they have never been removed from the
