Tawny Pipit records

due to commitments only arrived at Tetney after 18:00hrs and the Tawny Pipit was by then lost and became elusive as the wind increased and it got duller and colder and colder and colder -- felt more like Varanger than Lincs and what a contrast to mid-afternoon -- some high ISO slow speed distant records of this my third Tawny in Lincs -- still a rare bird and continuing the run of excellent rare birds in the county this spring -- I just need to find one myself

fishing Common tern

Little Tern on the pits

a brief visit from a Little Tern yesterday was soon curtailed by the local Commons -- Little Tern is less than annual nowadays but in the 70's August used to produce some regular movements on the Humber --

Purple Heron

nice bird

White-tailed Eagle

in 24C getting a shot of an incredible elusive and wary eagle was never going to be on but at least we eventually caught up with it -- appalling flight shots to show the primary damage on the left wing

more fun with Sedge Warblers

counted 18 in a short stretch of foreshore this morning -- also a new record 21 singing male Grasshopper Warblers on my local patch about 3x the previous best ever -- Canon 1D4 and 300 2.8 with 1.4x converter mark III

Dotterel

why do Dotterel turn up on the hottest days of the spring on fields that reflect heat haze like crazy --a few evening shots when it was a little cooler yesterday unlike the 26C when we were there today