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 

November Ring Ouzel

 Came across this Ring Ouzel on the 3rd and not been back since until Friday when a bit surprised to find it in the same little hedge with 7 Blackbirds - will probably stay until the berries run out 

The AF system on the Canon R6 is such an advance on DSLR's but it still needs tweaking on difficult subjects with lots of intervening rubbish - maybe I should put up a post showing how I have it set up and how I use it ? 

Ring Ouzel

a nice male at Alkborough earlier in the week  

flying Ring Ouzels

very nice to see high proportion of fledged juveniles in the 20+ Ring Ouzels in the area

the local Ring Ouzel

after looking at an awful lot of fields finally came across this male three days ago but only saw it in flight -- yesterday it was close but the camera was at home so walked back this morning with the camera and fortunately he was still there occasionally getting flushed by carrion Crows

Ring Ouzel

just appeared in a tree top in front of me - no time to adjust angle or anything - Alkborough Flats this morning 

Ring Ouzel and Mediterranean Gulls today

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