Messingham collection

 a couple of visits to Messingham, not one of my regular haunts produced some decent birds with the pair of adult Mediterranean Gulls being the most stunning; the sunning Common Lizard was the first I have managed to get the camera on for several years 

juvenile Mediterranean Gull

some lovely looking juveniles off Snettisham 

A good day on the patch

 First off some record shots of the first Mediterranean Gull of the year; appeared to be adult but clearly the black in those primaries make it a 3cy or 4cy summer

Then today as well as 300 Sand Martins and 5 Swallows a summer plumages Red-necked Grebe popped up only to be complemented by a drake Ring-necked Duck the first locally since 2018 - all birds were distant so some huge crops

Ring Ouzel and Mediterranean Gulls today

highlights of the pits today afternoon was a bit of a dead loss

a few Suffolk images

a family weekend in east Suffolk fitted in a few bits of birding -- was pleased with the Stone Curlew images they were taken at 21:35 on a very dull evening with 100% cloud cover; Canon 5D4 on 8000 ISO and 400 DO 2 and 1.4 converter -- it was hard enough seeing the bird through the viewfinder -- typical camera reviews rate the high ISO performance of a camera in bright daylight which is fine but actually useless as that is not why you need it, why use 8000 ISO when you can use 400 ISO? but if there is no light its a different story and results are clearly very different with regard to noise produced
not having been to the Westleton area for many many years I was astounded by the number of Med Gulls flying over everywhere and the flocks on the pig fields - didn't spend long looking at them but the flying adult had Yellow 2H46 as bling -- beautiful part of the world and so quite compared to my local area where background noise is so bad -- also still lots of wild areas and moths and bugs hence the richness of the birdlife not all as yet killed off by the Lincolnshire arable chemical killers