Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Monday, February 01, 2010
Gigrin Farm
Friday, January 15, 2010
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
reddish egret
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Jay and diver


As I said I've been out a couple of times since the move, here is a acoron collecting jay i found near great Yarmouth and this red-throated diver which I found fishing on the tideline at Salthouse, I followed it for about half a mile but sttruggled to keep up with it of it, eventually I got too tired to follow it any further.
Back on line


After moving to Norfolk at last my fist post. I can't believe how long its taken to get connected to the internet, I think its nearly four weeks and thats with a perfectly good working phone line, I cant imagine how long it would have taken if it had involved more than activating a line.
Alhough I have been to north Norfolk with the camera a couple of times today was the first visit to my local Norfolk broad which is only about five minutes from the house. There were a lot of gulls present when I got there about 3pm and I soon spotted an adult med gull amoungst the raft of black-heads. There was also a group of about 150 tufted duck with a scattering of pochard. I did a bit of a scan but didn't manage to pick anything out. I carried on sifting through the gulls when something scared all of the TD's out from under the overhanging trees, to my suprise this female ring-necked duck came into view. Well not exactly into view as it was about 350m away and it was getting pretty gloomy by this point. I'm off back at the weekend when I hope the duck will join some of the TD's which appear to like to feed right in front of the car park....
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Bald eagle
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
cley spoonbills
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Recent selection
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Fens barn owl and banded demoselle
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
A few recent flight shots
Rock dove and Gannet at Bempton Cliffs , the Hobby at Lakenheath the rest locally in Cambridgeshire. The young crow ventured a little too close to the peregrines young and nearly paid the price. Luckily it just managed to present its feet to the stooping falcon which as you can nearly pulled its legs off with brute force. The peregrine then released it and went up for another stoop which the badly shaken crow managed to evade by scrambling into some bushes. Click photos for larger images.












Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
wood sandpiper kalloni saltpans
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Lesbos first batch
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Cley birds
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Extremadura
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Claws
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Woodwalton Fen
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Short-eared owl top up
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Night heron Hythe
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Local mergansers and red kite
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Results of new camera settings
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Caspian gull

A really gloomy day despite another promise from the weather forecasters predicting a sunny day. For some reason the forecasters were insisting it was sunny in East Anglia all day, that was completely untrue. Luckily I resorted to the only sure method these days, look out of the window and then make plans. Due to the lack of sun for photography I decided to take a look at Dogsthorpe tip for gulls. Still no white-winged gulls there this winter but I managed an adult Mediterranean gull and this classic plumaged first winter Caspian gull.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Norfolk soft targets on ice
Monday, December 29, 2008
Christmas short-eared owl
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Pics from a sunny afternoon




For a change it was sunny the other afternoon and I took the opertunity to put my newly aquired 1Ds mk2 through its paces. Well my conclusion is the 40D is a toy compared to the 1DS with virtually every flight shot in critical focus compared to perhaps 1 in 10 for the 40D. The full-frame 17 million pixel sensor really helps with cropability too. Awsome.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
waxwings at Lincoln



For something different I decided to go for flightshots rather than the usual boring perched shots of these beautiful birds.
Camera settings for photography geeks were: Focus mode-one shot with all focus points activated. Manual exposure. Raw image with canon 20D, canon 400mm f5.6 prime lens (non-IS).
Monday, November 17, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Kites
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
black-headed and herring gulls
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
tanager and godwit
Monday, July 07, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Owls galore
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Bird of prey assortment
Monday, February 18, 2008
Norfolk weekend





As usual everything was extremely tame in Norfolk. This bittern was an incredible sight when it caught this water shrew less than 5 metres from the assembled crowd of photographers on Beeston Common.
The teal is a hybird green-winged(American) x Eurasian teal, as it has both vertical and horizontal white stripes in its flanks, both stripes are noticably less bold than is usual for these two species.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Reposting Pic
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Friday, March 10, 2006
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