Lesvos April 2011

Photographs from a Limosa tour to Lesvos.

Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus)

Citrine Wagtail (Motacilla citreola)

Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (Oenanthe hispanica ssp melanoleuca)

Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis)

Worm Snake (Typhlops vermicularis)

                                                               

Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus)

Little Crake (Porzana parva)

Little Crake (Porzana parva)

Fritillary species (Fritillaria pontica)

Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni)

Great Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus)

Black Stork (Ciconia nigra)

Legless/Glass Lizard/Glass Snake/Scheltopusik (Pseudopus apodus)

Common Winter Damselfly (Sympecma fusca)

Spanish Holiday

Some images from southern Spain March 2011

Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus)

Little Bustard (Tetrax tetrax)

 Viperine Snake (Natrix maura)

Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius)

Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus)

Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus)

Sardinian Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala)

Photos put to good use

I was delighted to see how well these recently taken images have been used in two advert supplements, enclosed with popular birdwatching magazines.

Images from Limosa tour to Gambia

  

Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides)

The popular Suffolk bird

Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Always great to have a shot used on a front cover.

Bittern

A fabulously friendly Bitternhunting by the river. Local marshes all frozen at the time

Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)

Same bird with ring.

Spoonbill (Platalea lucorodia)

Was this one of the young ones hatched at Holkham? Taken Cley Norfolk in November

Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

You may have noticed there's been a few around. Here's one I bumped into at Strumpshaw Fen RSPB

Hybrid Black Brant (Branta nigricans) Dark-bellied Brant Goose (Branta bernicla bernicla) Norfolk November 2010

One of the several hybrids at Wells that look alarmingly similar to pure Black Brants