a young male Marsh Harrier

the abysmal white sky syndrome -- I have these down as 3cy birds

Iceland Gull

the first-winter still along the sea wall between Pywipe and Immingham feeding on fish discarded by sea anglers -- tricky lighting and some worrying inaccuracies from the 5D3 on what should have been an easy flying bird -- work to do before Feb -- this bird has been reported at least once as a Glaucous Gull and it is a heavy looking bird -- the more I look at Iceland Gulls the more variation there seems to be

Common Snipes

Pochard

why are shots like this so unattractive? raptors from below are pretty standard but ducks?

Shorelarks

the weather forecast was seriously wrong yet again; sunny spells and some cloud actually equalled 100% black cloud for 90% of the day -- one very short-lived brighter spell when the larks were close was a bonus but that was about it -- all with Canon 5D3 and 500 f4 II with 2x III

Hen Harriers

suffered the ultimate dilemma -- birder or photographer this afternoon; the brilliant light didn't look as if it would last long so took the scope to view the harriers; female came in in beautiful sun, male hung in the air just 100m out in the same light -- went back for the camera and needless to say the light went the harriers were nowhere near as close -- a day of what could have beens - lower shot taken at 12800 ISO