Sunday 29 October 2017

A Heavy Load

The Tuesday session was cancelled because of heavy rain.  Hopefully, they will be able to catch up on Tuesday when everyone else is enjoying half-term.  The Wednesday and Thursday sessions went to Kilnsea, and confined their observing largely to the triangle area.  
Ring Ouzel
 Brent Geese (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart
 Ditto
 Brent Geese (c) 2017 Tony Robinson
 Same birds? different camera, and processing
 Brent Geese
The biggest surprise on Wednesday morning was the heavy kill a Kestrel was carrying.  It was only on examining our photographs that we discovered it was a Redwing! 
 Kestrel & Heavy Kill (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart
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 Redwing
 Redwings
Redwing (c) 2017 Dick Watson 
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Another surprise were the two Bearded Tits, which flew north from the Canal Zone.
Bearded Tits
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Curlew 
Curlew and Bar-tailed Godwit silhouettes (c) 2017 Dick Watson
Bar-tailed Godwit (c) 2017 Dick Watson 
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 Redshank (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart
Little Egret (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart
 Grey Plover
 Ditto
Grey Plover (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart
 Grey Plover (c) 2017 Tony Robinson
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 Golden Plover
 Golden Plover (c) 2017 Tony Robinson
 Waders against the Lighthouse
 Turnstone
 Turnstone (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart
 Ring Ouzel and Redwing
 Ring Ouzel
 Ring Ouzel and Blackbird
 Ring Ouzel
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 Ringed Plover
 Roe Deer
 Roe Deer (c) 2017 Aileen Urquhart
 Siskin
 Starling
There was no Kestrel carrying a Redwing on Thursday, or   Bearded Tits, but the star bird in the morning was a long-eared Owl.  It was a lifer for some.
Long-eared Owl
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 Whooper Swans
 Grey Seal
 Grey Seal (c) 2017 Dick Watson
 White Bryony
On Friday we had our first autumn visit to the wolds.  It was amazingly bright for a change with hardly any wind.  It was very chilly at the start, but by lunch time it felt almost tropical for late October.
Grey Wagtail
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Grey Wagtail (c) 2017 Jane Robinson
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Come in No.7 your time its up
 Red Kite
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 Number 7 on the move
 Red Kite (c) 2017 Jane Robinson
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Long-tailed Tit
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 Calling
 Long-tailed Tit (c) 2017 Jane Robinson
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Nuthatch
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 Hornet
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Peahen
 Peahen (c) 2017 Jane Robinson