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

Friday, 19 February 2010

Castleton, Derbyshire - 14-17/02/2010

Peveril Castle from Cave Dale.

Snow on the peaks of distant hills viewed from Cave Dale.


The dam at Derwent Water reservoir, where the Dambusters squadron practised before bombing the dams in Germany.


(A very poor photo of) Lesser Redpoll, Siskin and Goldfinch all on the same feeder at Longshaw Estate.



Mallard on the frozen lake at Longshaw Estate.


Chatsworth House - undergoing renovation.


Frost, mist, snow and a view of Peveril Castle.


Close-up of cold stuff.


More cold, mist and Derbyshire hills.

The van and awning covered in light snow. Don't be fooled - the snow was light but the temperature was low!