Dramatic sunset over Alkborough tonight and whilst taking photos a Common Crane flew in to roost - digiscoped videos at end of post taken with Canon S95 as the Nikon p6000 usually used for digiscoping has gone caput at only 2 years old! Some of the sunsets are also digiscoped and are all displayed in time order.
It’s not often we do a big twitch these days but yesterday’s call of the Sandhill Crane up in Scotland at the RSPB’s Loch of Strathbeg was just too strong for Wayne to resist. So with Karen and Simon we left at midnight to reach the Crane at 7.00 just in time to see it leaving its roost and heading off to feed in surrounding fields. It definitely gave us the run around but thanks to the three RSPB ladies constantly using their local knowledge to keep a track of it and then communicating updates to visitors we were never far behind it.
This next video is only three seconds but is on as you can hear the Crane calling as it flys.
A scruffy looking 1st winter Sabine’s Gull on a smelly landfill site.
A few dramas at home mean I’m not getting out at the minute so a bit of creative swiping is the only means of a blog post at the moment! so… I wish I had seen and photographed this bird but I didn’t - this was taken on the beach at Dungeness by my brother aka http://theshadoxhurstgarden.blogspot.com/ for more images click on the link!
Found this down by the fishing lake in the park and think it is Chicken of the Woods(Sulphur Polypore) - does anybody know?
A fair view butterflies out this morning, mainly Red Admirals and Small Whites but also this lonely Small Copper and a Comma in the garden. Also in the park this morning was a solitary Hornet chasing the bees in the walled garden - no photos as it was just too fast!
Yet another record count of Avocets on the Humber up at Read’s Island yesterday - a staggering amount of 1458! This morning’s waders included 23 Curlew Sandpipers, 5 Little Stint, 88 Bar-Tailed Godwits, 82 Knot, 2 Whimbrel and 2 Spotted Redshank.
The River Ancholme is covered in green algae at the moment and is finding its way out on to the Humber making interesting green stripes as it goes. All the following images were taken with my Father’s new Panasonic FZ100 - its 24x zoom certainly came in handy for the distant Common Crane down on Bonby Carrs this afternoon.
Looking east towards the Humber Bridge
and looking West back towards Read’s Island.
Spot the Crane..
