Off patch at Brancaster Harbour

    A late end to the day at Brancaster Harbour produced this obliging curlew, lucky to get this operating at very low shutter speeds.

 

Little Auk, Black-throated Diver and Fulmar past Holme, December 10th 2021.

Black-throated Diver - Holme 10th December 2021 - Theo de Clermont 

Fulmar Holme 10th December 2021 - Theo de Clermont

Little Auk, Holme 10th December 2021 - Theo de Clermont

Barn Owl hunting on Ringstead Downs

Barn Owl, Ringstead Downs, 1st March 2020

Black-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed Godwit, Thornham Hbr, 14th March 2020

Off Patch: Wells and Warham Camp

Common Pill Beetle, Byrrhus pilula, Warham Camp, 16th March 2020

Rough-legged Buzzard, Wells, 16th March 2020

Off Patch: Black-necked Grebe in Holkham Park

Black-necked Grebe, Holkham Park Lake, 5th January 2020

A Waxwing in Holme village

Waxwing, Holme, 4th January 2020

Off Patch...but only by a few hundred metres.

'Alaskan' Blue-headed Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Ringstead, 30th December 2019

Whooper Swans on the grazing marshes

Whooper Swans, Holme NWT, 27th October 2019

Off Patch: Roydon Common and Dersingham Bog

Minotaur Beetle, Typhaeus typhaeus Roydon Common, 18th March 2019

A tortoise beetle Cassida flaveola, Roydon Common, 18th March 2019

Daffodil Fly Norellia spinipes, Roydon Common, 18th March 2019

Raven, Dersingham Bog, 18th March 2019

Water Spider, Argyronecta aquatica, Dersingham Bog, 18th March 2019 (the silver oval is air trapped around its body)

Redshank

Redshank, Thornham Harbour, 17th March 2019

Barn owl demise

Barn Owl remains

   After a long spell of heavy winds, then torrentail rain over a near 24 hr period, this barn owl was probably pretty weak and hungry, however this is the second predated barn owl I've come accross this winter. The remains suggested a fresh raptor kill, from earlier in the morning. The predator in question had clearly left the scene, having had very little to eat! The bird was ringed details with BTO. 

A cold sunny day on the saltmarshes

Redshank, Lavender Marsh, 2nd February 2019

Teal, Lavender Marsh, 2nd February 2019

Birds in the Harbour

Black-tailed Godwit, Thornham Harbour, 13th December 2018

Twite, Thornham Harbour, 13th December 2018

Curlew, Thornham Harbour, 13th December 2018

Great Black-backed Gull

Great Black-backed Gull, Holme NWT, 9th December 2018

Dabchick, Holme Marsh, 10th November 2018

Off Patch: Welney, 5th November 2018

Blethisa multipunctata, Welney, 5th November 2018

Agonum piceum, Welney, 5th November 2018

Chlaenius nigricornis, Welney 5th November 2018

Saucer Bug, Ilyocoris cimicoides, 5th November 2018

Whooper Swan, 5th November 2018

Pink-feet, Orange Sky

Pink-footed Geese at dawn over Hunstanton, 3rd November 2018

Five familiar birds

Herring Gull, Hunstanton, 2nd November 2018

Common Gull, Hunstanton, 2nd November 2018

Turnstone, Hunstanton, 2nd November 2018

Oystercatcher, Hunstanton, 2nd November 2018

Black-headed Gull, Hunstanton, 2nd November 2018

Off Patch: Lesser Yellowlegs at Titchwell

Lesser Yellowlegs, Titchwell, 19th July 2018