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)

Tag CloudSpottedRedshank, BlacktailedGodwit, Buzzard, Wigeon, GreenSandpiper, CommonReed , Hoverfly, Cley

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

Tag CloudKnot, Dunlin, BarTailedGodwit, BlacktailedGodwit, Ruff, Sanderling, Landscape, StickyGroundsel, Viper'sBugloss, ScentlessMayweed, CarlineThistle, RingedPlover, SeaCampion

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

Tag CloudPeregrine, BlacktailedGodwit, MarshHarrier, Moorhen

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.

Tag CloudBlacktailedGodwit, MarshHarrier, Teal, Wigeon