Way behind

It’s getting on for a couple of weeks since I took the first lot of these images and nearly a week for the last lot. Anyway here they are.

Male Pied Flycatcher

It has attitude

So has this female

Yet butter wouldn’t melt

The Flycatchers had a lot to put up with they were forever chasing off other birds including this Jay

And this Woodpecker

On the moors were Meadow Pipit feeding young

A different Meadow Pipit again feeding young

Another day a different place. Sedge Warbler singing among the reeds

A Lapwing chick

Avocet

A very distant Spoonbill

Ringed Plover

In flight

Pectoral Sandpiper

Little Stint

Dunlin

Turnstone

I was driving to the Drift Café for breakfast when I saw this Barn Owl sitting on a fence post. I stopped the car and managed to fire off half a dozen shots before it flew off.

Distant Glossy Ibis

It took this Heron five minutes to get the Eel down its neck

These Bees were on the Churchyard wall in our village for a couple of days

 

Sunday afternoon out

The weather on Sunday was sunny but cool but the afternoon sun caused a heat haze at Druridge Pools, which was no good for taking pictures of the Glossy Ibis, Channel Wagtail, Garganey or the Spoonbill. Whilst taking pictures of said Channel Wagtail, the Glossy Ibis disappeared and no one saw in which direction it flew it turned up at Cresswell a little later. The light was better but the Ibis did not want to play ball instead it was skulking near a fence in some long grass I did however get some shots.

Glossy Ibis

In flight it looks positively prehistoric

Channel Wagtail (record shots only due to heat haze)

Spoonbill. Again record shot

Wheatear

Male Blackcap

Female Blackcap

Mallard (I just like the shot)

Heron. I like the light