Cley & Snipe's Marsh
Cley
Black Tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga bercaea)
Snipe's Marsh
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
Probably Helophilus pendulus - front dusting stops abruptly, female abdomen comes to a conical point. Difficult to see the extent of the black on the hind tibia.
Common Reed (Phragmites communis)
Spotted Redshank (Tring erythropus)
Cley
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Snettisham Beach
Snettisham High Tide Roost - 28/09/18
Larger versions of some of the swirling waders can be found in Birds Pleno
Knot (Calidris canuta)
Black Tailed Godwit and Knot
Dunlin
Knots landing
Bar Tailed Godwit
Dunlin
Sanderling
Black Tailed Godwit and Redshank
Sanderling
Oystercatcher
Ruff
Knot & Dunlin
Knot still in partial summer plumage
Ringed Plover
Dunlin
Sanderling
Sanderling
Carline Thistle
Scentless Mayweed
Sea Campion
Sticky Groundsel
Viper's Bugloss
Cley
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
Cley
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.