Monday, August 23, 2010

Red-faced Cormorant

Japan

Red-faced Cormorant

Pygmy Cormorant

Hungary

Pygmy Cormorant-

Pelagic Cormorant

Japan

Pelagic Cormorant

Long-tailed Cormorant

The Gambia

Long-tailed Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Northumberland
Cormorant

Crested Coot

Marismas del Odiel, Spain
Crested CootCrested Coot 
can’t bring myself to call them Red-knobbed Coot…
there is a paper some where in British Birds, titled “Knob Nibbling in Crested Coot”, who let that get through?

Trying unsuccessfully to find the above article in BB I also came across this from BB vol 73 10; "Why are Capercaillie cocks so big?" and thats on the front cover, top shelf stuff.

unbeliveable!!!

Common Coot

Northumberland
Common Coot

Chough

Wales

Chough

Spain

Chough 

Morocco

Chough

Iberian Chiffchaff

Northumberland
Iberian Chiffchaff

Common Chiffchaff

Coto Donana, Spain

Chiffchaff

Chaffinch

Northumberland
Chaffinch



africana Morocco
Chaffinch

Yellow-fronted Canary

The Gambia

Yellow-fronted Canary

Rough-legged Buzzard

Northumberland
Rough-legged Buzzard- Rough-legged Buzzard- Rough-legged Buzzard-

Long-legged Buzzard

Morocco

Long-legged Buzzard

Lizard Buzzard

The Gambia

Lizard Buzzard

Grasshopper Buzzard

The Gambia

Grasshopper Buzzard

Common Buzzard

Northumberland
Common Buzzard Buzzard

Little Bustard

Extremadura, Spain

Little BustardLittle Bustard

Sunday, August 22, 2010