Alpine swift

A walk to the Seals at Horsey Norfolk
this afternoon produced a Alpine Swift
over the sand Dunes for 20 seconds as it went south
photo's on my new Blog mick's Norfolk roost

New Blog up and running

My New Blog is now a GO
its Called mick's Norfolk Roost


 mick's Norfolk Roost

My New Blog

Hi all
As I am moving to Norfolk next week
I will be starting a New Blog Called mick's Norfolk roost
may take a week or so to put things away but I will learn as I
go and share with you Norfolk and its Wild life.
Thanks for following me all these years and to the next Advancer.
Mick davis

Black-eared Wheatear

Headed to the New Forest to Acres Down
for the Black-eared Wheatear that was found at 10.30am
arrived at 3pm just as it kept its Distance long views feeding
near a travellers camp on the other side of a field a nice bird to watch
for a few hours.

 Record shots

 Eastern Black-Eared
Wheatear Male

 

Pagham Harbour

Went back to Pagham
for a flight shot of the Hudsonian Whimbrel
as it hid in the grass people walked to the beach
to look down the channel to see it flow passed but wide
from me and started feeding with 4 whimbrel passed the hide
staying 150 meters away for a few hours.

 Hudsonian Whimbrel

 Cuckoo

 Goldfinch

Pagham Harbour

George Kinnard
Found a Hudsonian Whimbrel at church Norton
so headed to it nice scope views and a few record shots
of a new bird for sussex..

 Hudsonian Whimbrel

Red-Footed Falcon

Just keep going back
what a Super bird love it catching may flies.

 (F) Red-footed Falcon

Red-Footed Falcon

Red-Footed Falcon
took a hour or more for the Falcon to show
then a lot longer for it to start feeding
once a Hobby came in and joined it.
It started to feed more and move around the area
with the hobby.

 Female Red-footed Falcon

Hobby with Falcon

Red-Necked Phalarope

I got a Text from Jake Everett
that a Red-Necked Phalarope was found at the Ferry pool.
So got in the car and headed for it. When I was their speaking
to Richard and John King it was John how found it looking at the Avocets
as they had gone to see the Black winged stilt that was still at the back of the pool as l arrived.
The Red-Necked Phalarope was getting pushed around by a black headed Gull and a Avocet at times
only it was being pushed away not closer.

Great to see

 Red-Necked Phalarope

Woods Mill

A nice morning visit to see the Turtle Dove that's
at woods mill as l walked to the area l could hear it Purring
in the trees on the path then it flow to a old died tree .
their was a Red Kite going passed at the same time.
very nice start to the day.

 Turtle Dove

 Red Kite

 Beautiful Demoiselle

Day Time Nightjar

First time l had one of these day Churring Nightjars and found it..

Suffolk Day out

We went for the Broad-billed Sandpiper
at Tinker's Marshes Suffolk leaving at 9.30am
as Harry Dan & mike got to Three bridges station.
We arrived at 1pm with good news from people walking back to cars
its still showing well scope views where best a heat haze at times
good to see the difference as Dunlin sanderling with it and 3 Curlew sandpipers
on another pool nearby. After a bit of time watching we then moved on
to Minsmere RSPB to see the Red-necked Phalarope witch we did from North hide
a small dot feeding as phalaropes do going round & round heat haze made it hard
to get good detail's on this bird at a great distance.

 Broad-billed Sandpiper

 3 Curlew Sandpiper's

   

East Sussex

 

Grass Spider

 Bloody-nosed Beetle

 The Lackey moth

 Green Hairstreak

 Greenbottle

 2 Tawny Owlets