Bittern Norfolk Coast. Sometimes birds just decide to ignore the rulebook and don't hide in reedbeds like they are supposed to !!!!! Often the best views of Bitterns can be brief flight views over a large reedbed,.Not on this day !!!
Red Necked Phalarope Kelling Wilson's Phalarope Grafham Water Cambs. Very much the rarest of the Phalaropes.Not only that but also a male bird in striking plumage.
Red Breasted Geese Snettisham.Nice of them to turn up on the doorstep after spending a cold and fruitless day looking for them around Wells Sabines Gull Cley. A very smart juvenile bird that lingered. Ironically these pictures were taken only a few days after finally managing to pick up distant views of another Sabines past Holme while seawatching from the Dunes
White Rumped Sandpiper Grafham Water Cambs. Not the first I had seen but easily the most tame and approachable, as the pictures demonstrate !!!
Living in Bedford I am fortunate enough to be able to spend a lot of time on the Norfolk Coast, based around Snettisham and Holme. Most of my photos are likely to come from Norfolk but Bedfordshire does throw up some surprises occasionally, including our best Garden bird, my first Firecrest, feeding on bushes 15 feet from the back window.
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