Showing posts with label Red-footed Falcon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red-footed Falcon. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 May 2019

BACK FROM TURKEY

THIS IS OUR FIRST POST IN ALMOST 6 MONTHS SO
IT WILL BE NICE TO CATCH UP WITH EVERYONE.
WE TRIED LAST YEAR TO GET BACK INTO IT BUT 
IT REALLY WAS TOO SOON AFTER OUR LOSS.
NOW, A YEAR FURTHER ON WE ARE FEELING 
MORE ENTHUSIASTIC. WE HAVE JUST COME BACK 
 FROM A TRIP TO TURKEY (WITH BIRDHOLIDAYS) 
WHICH WAS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT AND HAS
REALLY KICKED-STARTED OUR BIRDING.

RED-FOOTED FALCON

BROWN FISH OWL, female

BROWN FISH OWL, male

BROWN FISH OWL

WHITE-THROATED ROBIN
WHITE-THROATED ROBIN

RED-FRONTED SERIN


RED-FRONTED SERIN


ORTOLAN BUNTING

PENDULINE TIT

OLIVE-TREE WARBLER

ROLLER

RED-BACKED SHRIKE

RUFOUS BUSHCHAT

RUPPELL'S WARBLER

SOMBRE TIT

CAUCASIAN WATER PIPIT

WESTERN ROCK NUTHATCH

WHITE-SPECTACLED BULBUL

WHITE-WINGED SNOWFINCH

CAUCASIAN HORNED LARK


BEE-EATERS, in the rain

BLACK-EARED WHEATEAR

BLACK-EARED WHEATEAR

BLACK-HEADED YELLOW WAGTAIL


COLLARED PRATINCOLE

COMMON TERN

LITTLE TERN

CORN BUNTING

CRESTED LARK

CRETZSCHMAR'S BUNTING

EASTERN OLIVACEOUS WARBLER

FINSCH'S WHEATEAR

HOOPOE

LITTLE OWL

MARSH WARBLER

MASKED SHRIKE
MASKED SHRIKE


NIGHTINGALE



Friday, 9 June 2017

HAM WALL

Whenever we visit our daughter in Bristol we always make a point of dropping in to Ham Wall on the way up, primarily for Hairy Dragonfly. We saw a few but always in the tops of trees and never dropping down for a photo. Never the less we had a great days birding and even managed a very distant record shot of the Red-Footed Falcon that's been hanging around for quite some time.

BANDED DEMOISELLE

BLACK-TAILED SKIMMER

EMPEROR
EMPEROR
FOUR-SPOT CHASER

GREAT WHITE EGRET

GREAT-CRESTED GREBE

GREAT-CRESTED GREBE

GREAT-CRESTED GREBE

GREAT-CRESTED GREBE

GREAT-CRESTED GREBE
REED WARBLER
RED-FOOTED FALCON, very distant.  JUST A RECORD SHOT.