White-billed Diver

juvenile White-billed Diver on the River Witham at the iron sheep -- you just could not predict that the second live White-billed Diver in Lincs would be on the same inland river as the first in 1996; the only other Lincs record was a tideline corpse but clearly they must occur offshore

Coues' Arctic Redpoll?

after a pointless amble around the pits and Humber hoping for a white-winged gull, 5 large gulls only passing by, I was wandering through Waters' Edge thinking of the unusual fact that I have found 3 different Arctic Redpolls on this one site; looking at 6 nice Bullies I saw a pale rumped redpoll fly up from the path and was confronted by this bird albeit through a maze of blackthorn twigs in dull light; underparts looked very white with a nice chamy tone to the cheeks and throat sides then they flew off; located the flock again with 4+ Mealies and this bird -- viewing was actually worse with more twigs and less light but it does have a white rump though its hard to see in these torrid images; the two lines of flank streaks are OK? upperparts do have a slight greyish cast but are the undertail coverts OK? the streaks are quite fine? probably needs better views in better light to be 100% -- photography was pretty impossible today

Marsh Harrier and winter reedbed

male Stonechat with rubicola influence?

does the extensive white neck side patches and white in the rump suggest some rubicola genes in this wintering male in Lincs?

Long-tailed Tit

a gathering of Golden Plovers

a small part of the 20,000 birds around Read's Island at the weekend; impossible to convey large flocks in single images

Lapwing sunset

Little Egret

new camera?, new lens? or just the light? 

Jack Snipe

swing the camera and lens and hope -- not the easiest subject and not perfect by any means but best flight shots I have had to date