Old Pics

Having not taken the camera out of the bag for quite a while I have dug out a few pics  from earlier in the year......

Part of one of the particularly impressive Whimbrel flocks in Spring

  Grasshopper Warbler on warm and sunny morning

 Stoats seem to spend more time in the air than on the ground when hunting.

 Grey Plover  looking very at home on the heath or to them very like the tundra where they were heading

A couple more of the photogenic Short-eared Owl Arctic Skua

October highlights

A good Autumn for Yellow-browed

Paddyfield Warbler

Firecrest

The long staying Red-backed Shrike, it timed its departure well

Greenland Whitefronts

September Sun

A few belated September photos and all with the sun out and blue sky...

 Kynance Farm  and Mullion Wrynecks

 A badger out foraging at 10 in the morning

Male Marsh Harrier

 Red Backed Shrike

Field Vole,

This Short Eared Owl caught 4 voles in less than 15 minutes hunting

Recent lizard Images

 Sand Goby and Sunfish

 Manx Shearwater - can be quite hard to get good photos as often quite shy of boats compared with Balearic, Great and Sooty.

 a wet juveneile marsh harrier caught out in the rain

 Recent (July-August) Dragonfly pics, Red-viened, Emperor and Common Hawker

Lanzarote Pelagic

A few  pics from recent pelagics in Lanzarote

 Band-rumped Storm Petrel (Madeiran)

 Black-bellied Storm Petrel

  Bottlenose

 Eleonoras

 Long Short-tailed Skua

  

 Wilsons Storm Petrel

 

 White Faced Storm Petrel

  White Faced and Band Rumped (Madeiran) Storm Petrel

   White Faced

 Bulwers Petrel (with what looks like a data logger)

Fritillary Flight

Silver-washed and Dark Green Fritillary

Arctic Skua-ing

Feather detail....

But some action...

 

 Ooopps-or take that...

Up comes the catch of the day.

 Even the herring gulls took a bit of a beating

But watch who you bully out there....