Monday, February 17, 2014

Thursday, February 13, 2014

First-winter Caspian Gull

Though you can't see it, this first-winter Caspian Gull (bird in foreground on the left) has yellow plastic ring on its lower right leg, and is almost certainly the same bird seen by Josh Jones (and Richard Patient, I think) at the same site (Tanholt Pits, near Peterborough) around about Christmas time. I photographed it on 24 January.

Friday, January 31, 2014

Some of my favourites from 2013

January. Waxwing, Ferry Meadows CP
January. Wood Mouse, Peterborough
February. Short-eared Owl, Baston Fen, Lincolnshire
March. Nuthatch, Ferry Meadows CP
March. Little Gull, Dog in a Doublet sluice.
April. Jack Snipe, Nene Washes RSPB
May. Great Northern Diver, Falmouth, Cornwall
May. White-winged Black Tern, Ferry Meadows CP
July. Great Crested Grebes, Ferry Meadows CP
August. Clouded Yellow, Maxey pits
August. Greenish Warbler, Burnham Overy, Norfolk
August. Southern Hawker, Castor Hanglands NNR
September. Bottlenosed Dolphin, Chanonry Point, Black Isle
September. Ptarmigan, Cairngorm
September. Red Grouse, Lochindorb
November. Great Grey Shrike, Holme, Cambridgeshire
November. Shag, Stamford, Lincolnshire
December. Water Rail Kings Dyke LNR