Bluethroat at Winterton North Dunes

Spent a few hours with the Bluethroat today

 Blurthroat

Tail shot

 

Winterton North Dunes

Started early at 6.30am
as rain later more windy than day before birds
staying low down or blown over my head
so a walk down to the concrete blocks and back through
the middle of the Dunes going to the north end
1 Wheatear a Red Kite 2 Marsh harriers 3 kestrel's
long tailed tit flock with great tit and blue a lesser whitethroat.
at the Toad pool 2 Whinchat and a Wheatear then.
Meet Barry with a Pied fly whitethroat 2 Redstarts tree pipit
near totem pole swifts swallows a few house martins and a Hobby.
birds in deep and low down rain starting about 11am. Green sandpiper over calling

 Swift

 Swallow

 2 Whinchat & wheatear

 Redstart

 Green woodpecker

Juv Kestrel was not Camera shy at North Dunes this morning

First stop was the Kestrel then Wryneck Redstart and Tree pipit and whinchat

Cley NWT

Saw 5 Little stints water rail , Marsh harrier put
the waders up a few times at Bishop's hide.
Moved to Dawke's hide finding the bird's where
more distant kestrel came close one little stint
with 26 Dunlin on Simmond's Scrape.

 Water Rail juv

 Dunlin & Little Stint

 Goldfinch

 Kestrel

 Carrion Crow

 House Martin

 Little Stint

Winterton

Started the day with a hour sea watch
with 40+ common scoter going south
8 Eider (S) Sandwich terns (N) Gannets fishing
not as many terns moving today.
In North Dunes 8 stonechat 1 Whinchat 2 Swift
2 Sparrow hawks 2 Kestrel 1 Red kite 2 Marsh Harrier
60 swallows feeding 5 Wheatear 1 Skylark
linnet Green woodpecker.

 Whinchat

 Stonechat (juv)

 Swift

 Yellowhammer

 Wheatear

 red kite & marsh Harrier

 2 sparrow hawk

 Wheatear

 natterjack Toadlet

Raptor's over the Dunes

Mid morning as it started to warm up
Kestrel on fence then Common Buzzard over the trees
moving on to see a larger wood at the back 2 common buzzards & 2 Marsh harriers
then a Red kite up and pushed off by a Marsh harrier, Hobby came in chasing Swallows
then 5 Common Buzzards with 2 Marsh Harriers then 2 hobby's went passed 2 kestrels hunting
in Dunes, up in the sky high up 7 Buzzards one looking longer winged then the rest.
finished with 7+ buzzard's 3 kestrel's 3+ hobby's 1 red kite 4+ marsh harrier's

Kestrel

 Hobby's

 Buzzard