Wednesday, 5 May 2010

North Norfolk - 30 April to 2 May 2010

Greylag family at Titchwell

Greylag close-up

Black-tailed Godwit at Cley

Avocet at Cley

Avocet in the rain at Titchwell

Avocet at Titchwell

Mallard duckling out of the water

Black-tailed Godwit at Cley

Kestrel feeding on freshly-caught prey at Cley

Nicely-plumaged Black-tailed Godwit feeding at Cley

Common Sandpiper at Cley

Wheatear on the shingle bank at Cley beach

Sandwich Terns at Cley reserve

Marsh Harrier over the reedbeds at Cley reserve

Sandwich Terns in the air at Cley

Little Egret over the reedbeds at Cley

Wheatear on the shingle bank at Cley beach

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Various birds, mostly in Bridlington Harbour - April 2010

Herring Gull

Kittiwake

Tree Sparrow at Bempton Cliffs

Group of Razorbills off Flamborough Head

Herring Gull - close

And his friend

Turnstone

Another view

Purple Sandpipers feeding

Purple Sandpiper

Purple Sandpiper

Purple Sandpiper

Knot

And his friends

And some Turnstone as well

Knot again

Purple Sandpiper

Bempton Cliffs birds - 08/04/2010

Crowded Kittiwake homes

Guillemots share them too

....and Razorbills

Gannets spread themselves out a bit more

They show their full glory as they fly by

A lone Razorbill

Again

This Kittiwake pair will have young within a couple of months

A Puffin getting ready to excavate a burrow

And taking a rest

Getting ready to fly out to sea

Gannets in sequence

A Fulmar flies by

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Suffolk - 11-14/03/2010

Minsmere Nature Reserve and Sizewell nuclear power station viewed from Dunwich Heath

Black-headed Gull on one of the Minsmere lagoons

Mediterranean Gull flying amongst the Black-heads

Male Teal

Male Marsh Harrier in its natural environment

Reedbed in the North Warren RSPB reserve, where, later on, we saw a Bittern

Signs of spring

The famous Thorpeness "House in the Clouds" (look it up on Wikipedia) and Sizewell power station viewed from across the wet grazing fields of North Warren reserve

Freezing on Aldeburgh beach

A close-up of the "House in the Clouds"

Interesting Suffolk soil

Aldeburgh viewed from across Aldeburgh Marshes alongside the River Alde