I'm thinking of autumn already. Whinchat, Salthouse, Norfolk, 24th September 2007
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Showing posts with label Canon S80. Show all posts
Sunday, 1 August 2010
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
FAY
This is FAY, a Cormorant from a brood of four ringed in Forvie, North-east Scotland. I found it on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly on 31st October 2007. It's still the most southerly recovery from all the Cormorants ringed on the east coast of Scotland to date.
Coincidentally, I also found another colour-ringed Cormorant from the same area at the weekend. This one was on Brogborough lake in Beds. It was originally ringed in Inverbervie on 25th July earlier this year.
Reporting colour-ringed birds can be very rewarding....if the ringers involved can be bothered to write back! Which isn't always the case, unfortunately.
(edited to keep Errol happy!)
Saturday, 14 February 2009
A bird to burn your eyes out
Some birds really amaze me at just how brightly coloured they are. These Green Bee-eaters in Goa were just dazzlingly!
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Magic Tree Frogs
Tree Frog, Blackwoods Camp, Goa, December 2007.
When we stayed at Blackwoods, there were lots of these wonderful frogs in our 'bathroom'. It wasn't so much a bathroom, more an open topped toilet/shower!
Anyway, very often you'd open the loo lid and get surprised by one of these things leaping out at you. Most of the time they'd hop out of the toilet, but sometimes, especially when you flush, they fall back in, doomed for the cesspit!
Well, that's what you would think happened, right? Wrong! As if by magic, the next time you'd go to the loo, they'd be back in exactly the same place. How they get back so quickly is a mystery, as that loo has a ferocious suck on it...
Oh and don't worry, this one wasn't photographed IN the loo, it was on the wall just beside it.
Keel-billed Toucan
Keel-billed Toucan, Costa Rica, Febuary 2007. That has got to be one of the best looking beaks of all birds?
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Prong-billed Barbet
Prong-billed Barbet, Costa Rica, February 2007 - the couzin to Toucan Barbet in the Choco on Ecuador and Colombia, but much duller! I suppose the red eye is nice though.
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Woodcocks eye
This is a close-up of one of the Titchwell Woodcocks eye. The other pics can be found here. Titchwell, Norfolk, 26th January 2008.
Sunday, 24 February 2008
Kingfishers of Goa
Blue-eared Kingfisher
White-throated Kingfisher
Stork-billed Kingfisher
Black-capped Kingfisher
Lesser Pied Kingfisher
Common Kingfisher
....and last, but not least, Kingfisher - the beer!Sunday, 27 January 2008
Wednesday, 2 January 2008
Green Bee-eaters
Day-glow green bee-eaters - how cool is that?! Green Bee-eaters, Goa, India, December 2007.
Small Pratincoles
These have to be one of the cutest waders in the world? Small Pratincoles, Goa, India, December 2007.
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