Sunday, May 29, 2011

May 29 2011

Yesterday was another perfect example of work getting the way of my life, so today I was playing catch-up.

It started badly, with a no-show of Great White Egret at Castle Island. I’m not saying they weren’t there; I didn’t see them!

Cresswell next, and Northumberland’s newest breeding species. The picture and the recording are from a week ago.

Avovet  
 

From here it was up to Druridge, where the wind was really howling and cold. I put on another two layers, it was that cold!

Today there were three Spoonbill’s on show, and as per usual, they were asleep! After a while, one of them broke the Spoonbill rule, and started feeding.

Spoonbill Spoonbill

While here, chatting with Andy, I used one of the gadgets to dial up the Interweb thingy and discovered that the Terek Sandpiper was still at Hauxley, so that was where I went next.

The bird was initially in the same small bay where I saw my first Terek Sandpiper way back in 1986. That was before the webernet thing and pagers and mobile phones and birdlines. I heard about that one from the local TV news bulletin. Them were the days!!

Never close, at best these are just record shots
Terek Sandpiper Terek Sandpiper
And that was it, because as I left, the wind had reverted back to hurricane strength, so I went home.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Wallcreeper

Spain

Wallcreeper Wallcreeper Wallcreeper

In the darkest part, on the dark side of the valley,  this Wallcreeper was building a nest. All taken at 500 iso or higher

Subalpine Warbler

Spain

Subalpine Warbler

Spotless Starling

Spain

Spotless Starling

Serin

Spain

Serin Serin

Rock Sparrow

Spain

Rock Sparrow

another trip to Spain, and another crap picture of Rock Sparrow!

Eventually, one of these will pose for me…

Red Kite

Spain

Red Kite

Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Sunday, May 01, 2011

more getting into the spirit...




Due to a administrative cock-up by my good self, I'm now on holiday (again)!

Flying tomorrow, more to follow...