a week in Suffolk

a family break with a few odd birds and insects thrown in -- a beautiful county with just so much habitat but not a place where you want to get anywhere quickly;
Hummingbird Hawk Moth on the cottage garden on day two, Migrant Hawker, Shingle Street, Aldeburgh, Silver Y one of 1000's - they were everywhere

Spurn 27.9.12

somewhat disappointing bird wise with most things having left but good views of a Greenish Warbler and some extended calling at one stage from my 16th British Greenish and it was not that far from where I saw my first on September 1st 1974!
Red-breasted Flycatcher was another skulker, the Greenish could have been an awful lot closer, why do people stand such a long way off birds that are clearly not bothered, plus a perched Hummingbird Hawk Moth, Common Lizard and Roesel's bush-cricket located by Steve Routledge -- autumn days don't seem to be what they used to be

all photos with Canon 1D4 and 300 2,8 II and 2x III converter

Hummingbird Hawk

a sunny, well sometimes sunny, day at last and a few dragons but not a lot -- very few butterflies apart from Ringlets and Meadow Browns then came across this Hummingbird Hawk moth feeding on the bugloss -- All shots Canon 1D4 and Canon 300 2.8 II