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| Black Wheatear, North of Agadir |
Thursday, February 23, 2012
BLACK -CROWNED TCHAGRA, MOROCCO
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| Black-crowned Tchagra, area of Soussa Massa. Much searching needed to see this shy and elusive species. Although we looked for some hours for our first sighting, we accidently came upon the second species of the day! |
TEMMINCK'S LARK, MOROCCO
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| Temminck's Lark, near Guelmin Other desert species seen were Thick-billed Lark, Bar-tailed Desert Lark, White-crowned Black Wheatear, Red-rumped Wheatear and Meghreb Wheatear. |
BLACK-BELLIED SANDGROUSE, MOROCCO
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| Black-bellied Sandgrouse. When seen on the ground was in the company of a single Spotted Sandgrouse and two other Black-bellied |
THE ATLAS MOUNTAIN ROADS, MOROCCO
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| Climbing the Atlas Mountains on our way to Oukaimeden. Note the barrier free roads which all look very scenic in day light. NOT SO MUCH FUN WHEN LOST IN THE DARKNESS LATER IN THE DAY! |
MOUNTAINS AT OUKAIMEDEN, MOROCCO
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| Oukaimeden stands at approximately 8900 feet. The low temperature in early morning was certainly a challenge with repect to photography; exposed fingers only operating for about 5 shots before needing some extra warmth. Other species, apart from those below, seen at this altitude were Rock Sparrow, Atlas Shore Lark, African Blue Tit and Levaillant's Green Woodpecker. |
CHOUGH, OUKAIMEDEN, MOROCCO
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| About 300 Choughs often flying at the same time as about 200 Alpine Choughs produced a memorable and spectacular view with the snow covered mountains as a backdrop. |
Common Yellowthroat, Rhiwerin, Gwent, Wales
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| This is NOT the Yellowthroat we saw in Wales but an adult male seen in Canada some months ago. The first winter male in Gwent was eventually seen after 3 1/2 hours searching but only for a total viewing time of about 3 seconds. Its extremely elusive nature precluded any photographic opportunities. |
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
A Mega and a Rarity in Hants.
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| Male Spanish Sparrow. We were lucky to have such views of this mobile sparrow even though it persisted on being on the wrong side of the feeder! The theory is that it has been in Calshot, Hants for some time because of a number of hybrids which resemble both House and Spanish Sparrow. |
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| Being in the area we spent an hour or so before locating this rare Black-eyed Junco. Hawshill Inclosure, New Forest , Hants. |
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Arctic & Lesser Redpoll
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| Lesser Redpoll |
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| Coues' Arctic Redpoll BIRDWATCH MAGAZINE-FEBRUARY 2012 |
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| Coues' Arctic Redpoll Feeding on main reserve path at Tichwell, North Norfolk |
Saturday, December 17, 2011
VISIT TO COSTA RICA
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| Images of a visit to Costa Rica can be seen by clicking on the relevant entry in the GALLERY on the right hand side of this page. |
Friday, December 02, 2011
Visit to St Margaret's Church, Cley, Norfolk
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| White-crowned Sparrow immortalised in a stained-glass West window in Cley's Church. The day began with a trip to Norfolk to see a Semi-palmated Sandpiper which we had previously 'seen' but at a vast distance. The visit was to 'confirm' our tick and also to appreciate the the finer ID points. On interrogating the Internet ,during our journey, to find out if any other interesting species were around we noticed that the Semi P had been potentially upgraded to the Megaspecies-----a Western Sandpiper. The 'new' bird was duly observed at Cley Marshes. An ordinary birding day was therefore transformed to a Congratulatory Mega day. In thanks for this transformation we decided to visit St Margaret's church in Cley to offer our Gratitude to the Great Ornithologist in the Heavens for sending us this rarity. Whilst in the church we hunted for and eventually found ( the sign of persistent birders) the small painting of the rare White -crowned Sparrow which visted Cley from North America in January 2008 and which was reponsible for donations in excess of £ 6,300 which was used for the 13th century church's West window restoration |
Monday, November 28, 2011
Monday, October 03, 2011
Sandhill Crane
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| Sandhill Crane. This was our first opportunity to nail this North American Crane on its travels south from Aberdeenshire. Taken at Boyton Marshes, Suffolk through the heat haze |
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