More OSPREY pics

Ospreys never fail to impress me...

I'm still working in Germany at the moment, but will be back soon!

OSPREY at Lyng (Norfolk)

Quick post whilst waiting in the airport; I'm heading off to work in Germany for a couple of days. This Osprey performed well at Lyng.

Black-Winged Stilt

Another quick Egypt catch up (although I did see a Black-Winged Stilt at Abbotsbury earlier this year)! There were 5 birds present upon my second visit to the Sewage Works.

And there were a few White-Eyed Gulls near the hotel:

Apologies for lack of content; I'm having a rather busy spell again at the moment. More to come soon...

Western Reef Heron

I've been rather busy since I've been back from Egypt; apologies for how quiet this blog has been! Here's a few pics of Western Reef Heron from the aforementioned trip.

NIGHTJAR - successful breeding on patch

I'll start this post by stating that I'm currently in Egypt. I knew going away at the beginning of September would probably mean I miss one or two good birds on patch, but didn't expect such quality as Citrine Wagtail, Spotted Crake and Wryneck! I'm disappointed to have missed those, but thankfully I've seen the latter two on patch in previous years, and the Wagtail was a brief visitor so I may not have seen it anyway. Look out Steve Waite, with all the good patch birds this year it looks good for Phil Abbott to jump your record...

Back to the post title regarding Nightjars. I've had more time this Summer to monitor the activities of the Colyton Nightjars. August 2013 was the last time I saw these so I thought it was about time to see their progress; and what fantastic progress there has been! I'll do a full write up about them upon my return from Egypt, and also a write up on birds I've seen whilst away. Nightjars are VERY difficult to photograph, but weeks of monitoring their behaviour gave me a wealth of knowledge to be able to photograph them whilst causing minimal disturbance (monitoring during early stages of breeding and photographs post fledging). Some of the birds were surprisingly confiding once they'd become accustomed to my presence (maybe they didn't even see me) so although I didn't take many pics, I have had some fantastic experiences with them.

I'm glad to report that there were a minimum of 8 Nightjar at the site, including 3 juveniles in August (adult and 2cy birds were counted in July only). A fantastic success!

KNOT another wader post

I thought I'd join the bandwagon of having a slight pun in the post title - I caught up with the Knot on Black Hole Marsh this evening. A fairly scarce bird on patch; this was only my fourth. Here's a couple of snaps:

Better LITTLE STINT & CURLEW SAND pics

Black Hole Marsh was a bit disappointing this morning! I popped down for a quick look around in the rain and the only birds of interest on BHM were 3 Wood Sands and 4 Ruff... Hopefully the birds were out on the estuary instead; it was low tide at the time. Here's a few more pics from yesterday: