Rutland Water never fails to provide a wide variety of winter Wildfowl. Only just over an hours drive from home, so a great place to pick-up a few “Year Ticks”. Today, Sunday 18th January, was no exception, with plenty of ducks and grebes and other waterfowl on offer. Smew can be difficult to year tick, […]
A visit to North Norfolk early in the year really kick starts the year list, and Sunday 7th January was no exception. We arrived at Titchwell early morning with plenty of common ducks and waders on view, including a small flock of wintering Avocet. From one of the hides a number of Shoveler were giving good
My first visit of 2015 to my local patch. A great morning with bright sunshine and blue skies. A total contrast to the Trent Valley, where it was thick fog, hampering our search for the local Great Grey Shrike. So a few common birds for the year – Nuthatch, Coal Tit, Pied Wagtail, Dunnock, Jay,
We spent a day at North Shields Fish Quay, Northumberland on Saturday 3rd January 2015. The fish quay is a great place for “White-winged” Gulls during the winter months and we were not to be disappointed. Two 1st winter Glaucous Gull, a 2nd winter Iceland Gull and a “Viking Gull” (Glaucous x Herring Gull Hybrid)
A Little Bustard was discovered in flight over fields near Bridlington, East Yorkshire on 31st December 2014. The bird was relocated in a Kale field and remained in the field till dusk and triggered one of the biggest “Twitches” for sometime. Fortunately, the Little Bustard, an immature, as still present on 1st January 2015 and was
Sunday 28th December 2014. A stunning early winter’s morning at one of the local patches close to home. Bright and sunny with superb blue skies, gave some great photographic opportunities. This posting and the attached photographs are dedicated to my dear Auntie Bees, who peacefully passed away late this morning after a short but severe
Despite the snow and pretty awful conditions, we set out for the fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, in the pursuit of some Short-eared Owls. It was a long and careful drive through many untreated roads but we arrived at our Short-eared Owl site near Eldernell around eleven o’clock. We quickly encountered several birds hunting but
Well I’ve splashed out and purchased some new Camera Gear. The following images are the first results, taken with my new Canon Camera and Lens, over weekend of 20th & 21st December 2014. The weather over the weekend was not really conducive to photography, being very grey & cloudy with little in the way of
