Bamburgh part two

 More from the beach and rocks at Bamburgh. The Sanderling are cracking little birds and I was fascinated by the way they scurried around the beach and as always, I took far too many pictures of them. If I stood still while on the beach most of the birds would come close and weren’t bothered at all about me being there. All in all, it was a great three days.

I thought at first this was a Curlew Sandpiper but the more I look the more I think it is a Dunlin.

Sanderling.

Sanderling and Redshank.

Levitating Redshank.

Purple Sandpiper.

Common Gull.

Isle of Mull part 2

Unfortunately, for you the viewer, because of the number of images I have there are more parts to these Blogs than I thought.

My first (but not last) White-tailed Eagle of the holiday

Dunlin

Ringed Plover

Wheatear

Rock Pipit

Rock Pipit catching worms

I have never seen as many Scotch Argus butterflies during visits to Mull they were everywhere

Scotch Argus butterfly 

I had the moth trap out during the first week of our holiday and this beetle, which was covered in mites, was in the trap

This Horse Fly, which was around an inch long, landed on my car wheel

 

My two pennies worth…

…from Whitburn and South Gare last week (I have just finished going through all of the images). Three lifers in one day and not one of them found by me but do I care NO!!!!!!

Red-backed Shrike at Whitburn. Always too far away for decent pictures but my first lifer of the day.

Roseate Tern at South Gare. Again too far away but my second lifer of the day.



My third lifer a superb Pomarine Skua.

Having a stretch

Having a snooze. It wasn’t at all bothered by all the birders/photographers and while I was there everyone behaved impeccably.

Ready to take off because the only thing that bothered it was dog walkers

And this is what it thought of said dog walkers

Preening

Who do you think you are looking at?

Another dog walker on the beach got too close

Flying toward me

A fly past

Dunlin in flight

Just landed

Playing with the seaweed

Just like the colours of the bird

Sandwich Tern

Juvenile Arctic Tern

Bar-tailed Godwit

Having a good scratch