Black-throated Thrush

Female Black-throated Thrush at Newholm, North Yorkshire

First lifer of the year

Extremely poor light requiring 1600 iso and 1/50 sec at f 5.6

Wood Duck

Blakeney Wild Fowl Santuary

White-cheeked Pintail

Blakeney Wild Fowl Santuary

Marbled Duck

Blakeney Wild Fowl Santuary

Bittern

A drop or two of Sloe Gin was needed after a sub zero wait to get this extremely hungry bittern which was attempting to stalk down the local passerines

At the outflow of a 95 percent frozen Eyebrook reservoir

Bullfinch

Male Bullfinch in a Peterborough Garden

Mute Swans at a Frozen Eyebrook

Moorhen

At King's Dyke NR

Fox at King's Dyke

A dejected fox after failing to ambush some Moorhens in the Reedbed at King's Dyke

Reed Buntings

Female Male Male Female

Male

Male

Male

Female

Female

Male. All taken at King's Dyke NR

Great Tit

In Peterborough

Robin

In Peterborough

Pintail

At Low Washes, Peterborough

Bar-tailed Godwit

Bar-tailed Godwit at Tichwell, Norfolk

Stonechat

Stonechat at Nene Low Washes

Mandarin

Undisclosed Site

Curlew

Curlew at Snettisham, Norfolk

Blackbird

In a Peterborough garden

Serin

Female or 1st Winter Serin at Rainham Marshes

Mr & Mrs Mallard

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Salthouse, Norfolk . Double click for more details

Black Swan

Black Swan at Salthouse , Norfolk

Little Owl

CAMBRIDGESHIRE BIRD CLUB PHOTO OF THE MONTH.

Little Owl near Thorpe Hall, Peterborough

Bar-headed Goose

This Bar-headed Goose has associated with a small flock of Greylag Geese for some years now in the vicinity of the Deepings

Common Snipe

Titchwell, October 2009

Zitting Cisticola

© Chris Orders

The scene at 7.00am at Pegwell bay Country Park, near Ramsgate. All viewing the Zitting Cisticola ( Fan-tailed Warbler) as it flitted intermittently along the fringes of the salt marsh. Although this Warbler has been present for some time, it is now making regular daily visits , especially in the early morning, to the areas surrounding the hide nearest to the park's main car park. Great Northern Diver. On returning from Kent we dropped in at Grafham waters to view the Three Northern Divers and the single Black-throated Diver. Oddly the Black-throated Diver and one of the Northern Divers formed a diving pair removing themselves from the other Divers. This gave a good opportunity to compare the ID characteristics of the two species

Red-crested Pochard

Male Male Male

Female

Eclipse Male.

Red-crested Pochards taken in Norfolk in October