IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER

 It has been bleak this month with largely grey skies and drizzle so I had to make the most of the odd sunny spells,its mostly sea birds with the occasional surprise.

RAZORBILL DOVER HARBOUR

GUILLEMOT DOVER HARBOUR

SHAG DOVER DOCKS

SHAG

WILLIAM &KATE JOHNSTON AN OLD LIFEBOAT WELLINGTON DOCK DOVER.

LITTLE EGRET ROCK POOLING SAMPHIRE HOE

CAUGHT A LARGE PRAWN

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KITTIWAKES COMMON GULL AND MEDITERRANEAN GULLS DOVER HARBOUR.

RING TAIL HEN HARRIER STODMARSH

STODMARSH SUNSET

EARLY MORNING CIRRUS  

WHITE STORK WORTH

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SAMPHIRE HOE SUNRISE

BLACK REDSTART SAMPHIRE HOE

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GREAT NORTHERN DIVER SAMPHIRE HOE

5 GOOSANDERS FLYING WEST SAMPHIRE HOE.

MALE HEN HARRIER CASTLE COOTE SOUTH SWALE.

ANOTHER VISIT TO WORTH THE STORK WAS MUCH CLOSER THIS TIME

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WHITE FRONTED GEESE WORTH.

BLACK THROATED DIVER RAMSGATE HARBOUR

WE HAVE LIFT OFF.

RED THROATED DIVER RAMSGATE HARBOUR

SHAG RAMSGATE HARBOUR.

MEDWAY QUEEN UNDERGOING REFURBISHMENT RAMSGATE HARBOUR.

8 BEWICK SWANS ARC PIT GOOD TO SEE 3 YOUNGSTERS.

TAKING OFF

AIRBORNE

-BEWICK SWANS BREED ON THE ARCTIC TUNDRA.

-AND VISIT US IN WINTER.

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A BIG SURPRISE 3 AVOCETS IN THE MIDDLE OF DOVER HARBOUR.

CALAIS SEAWAYS IS NOW ISLE OF INNIS FREE  OF IRISH FERRIES.

SUNARISE NEW YEARS EVE 2021

NORFOLK N CHANCE NOVEMBER 2021

 A few days birding and meeting family in Norfolk started with a visit to Welney on the way to Snettisham where we were based for three nights then on to Blakeney  and finally to Catfield near Hickling Broad.

POCHARD

WHOOPER SWANs visit Britain in the winter from Iceland

-the yellow on the bill is distinctive to individuals like a fingerprint to humans.

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I`M FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES

A JUVENILE WHOOPER.

PINK FOOTED GEESE flying over Snettisham heading for the Wash.

TWO GREY PHALAROPES on the freshwater pool at Titchwell.

WATER PIPIT at Heacham.

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BROWN HARES also at Heacham.

PINK FEET IN THE SUNSET

SUNSET AT SNETTISHAM

Having bumped into the Ratcliffes and the Burts it was now John Cantelo who put me on to a large flock of Brambling somewhere in the middle of nowhere,thank goodness  for sat navs.If you read my blog at all John thanks again.

BRAMBLING

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-FEMALE BRAMBLING

When we arrived at Holkham 1000s of Geese were flushed from the adjacent field it was quite a spectacle.

PINK FEET AT HOLKHAM

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-Noisy birds to say the least.

-they visit Norfolk in their thousands each winter from their  Arctic breeding grounds.

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WIGEON

 DRAKE WIGEON.

FISHING BOAT OUT OF KINGS LYNN AT HOLKHAM.

HOLKHAM DUNES minus SHORE LARKS that had been there half an hour before.

The weather had been reasonably kind for the first part now inevitably it went downhill and became cold windy damp and murky.

CLEY MILL in the murky mist.

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CROMER PIER

STUBBS MILL -Hickling Broad where Cranes usually come to roost,not tonight though.

A DARK FORBODING SKY AT HICKLING.