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Black Tailed Godwit (limosa limosa)
Young Male Marsh Harrier making a meal of a dead Pinkfooted Goose.
Teal, Wigeon & Black Tailed Godwit
Teal in the evening light.
Adult Yellow Legged Gull
Adult and Second Winter Caspian Gull
and a part Glaucous Gull.
Very pale plumage, bill showing Glaucous tendencies but black primaries.
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Black tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) & the odd Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
Juv Peregrine (Falco peregrinus)
and just down the road at Salthouse
Black headed Gulls doing the two step
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Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
White Wall Rocket (Diplotaxus erucoides)
And
Just down the road
A very nice European Stonechat
Sadly the other one dropped from the top of the reeds near the Lane first thing this morning
and
disappeared for two hours.
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Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Coming in
Resting
Going out
Pink Footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Shoveller & Teal (Anas crecca)
Shoveller (Anas clypeata)
Coot (Fulica atra)
Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
Three Black Tailed Godwit in a scrape.
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Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis)
Gadwall (Anas strepera)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Black Tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Water Pipit (Anthus spinoletta)
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Pinkfeet choosing the moon.
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Leaving the roost this morning
Pink Footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Canada Goose with the Pinkfeet.
Seems to have a very pale almost white breast with clear demarcation between the breast and neck colour.
Does this make it B C canadensis?
'That Cackling conundrum'
from
the IRBC
Comparison's of sub species here
and
from an article from Sibley's
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Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis)
Probably not wild but….?
Pink Footed Goose (Anser brachyrynchus)
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Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Beautiful markings on a freshly arrived Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos)
&
One Little Stint
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The magnificent aerial antics of Pink Feet coming into land.
Pink Footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
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One of a pair of Buzzards (Buteo buteo)
Tagged Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Pink Footed geese landing. (Anser brachyrynchus)
Monday Wash Day at Cley
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
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Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus)
Lesser Black Backed Gull (Larus fuscus)
Pink Footed Goose (Anser brachyryhnchus)
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Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ocheropus)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)