Ring Ouzel and Wheatear

First bird out of the Waters' Edge bag this morning was this fine male Ring Ouzel but its stay was quite short-lived as visitor numbers built up ; two female Northern Wheatears and my first two Common Sandpipers of the spring were this afternoon's highlights 

Willow Warbler and Wheatear

 a slow trickle of spring migrants locally this weekend with Willow Warblers and Blackcaps building up and my first Northern Wheatears and House Martins but could do with some sustained sunshine

some further R6 images

 getting a better feel for this camera and how it works - the Yellow Wagtail was through a reed fringe needing manual focus initially; the harriers are pretty big crops but all 12 in a sequence were in focus but light and contrast are clearly key factors - nice to get rid of the glaring overhead sun and heat haze! 

The Northern Wheatear looks like a Greenland

a sandy Northern Wheatear

two strikingly pale sandy Northern Wheatears on the beach today, upright stance always adopted, running in short bursts to catch insects and leaping into the air suggested they may be interesting but the requisite Isabelline features were missing with the underwing nailed in a short flight - but single images can be very difficult to interpret correctly -

Greenland Wheatear

a beautiful juvenile bird at Alkborough yesterday - certainly seems to fit the Greenland bill and it was so tame I am guessing it had not encountered human lifeforms before 

Northern Wheatear

first decent encounter today

Northern Wheatears

pretty migrant less day until I came across 5 Wheatears at Saltfleet mid afternoon - just sat down for 90 mins enjoying them -- one stunning adult male and a second bird here that is also presumably a male but adult or not?

Northern Wheatears but where are they heading

really enjoyed these superb Wheatears yesterday with a minimum of 14 individuals all but one males; the pales bird is amongst these images that show a variety of birds but are they true Greenland Wheatears or are they heading for Iceland as seems to be the theory based on slightly paler underparts than Greenlands and the timing that fits well with arrivals in Iceland -- any thoughts / comments welcome