Goldcrest

I painted this picture of a Goldcrest for my Dads Birthday.

Sabine's Gull and two Grey Phalaropes

Sabine's Gull and two Grey Phalaropes at Grafham Water.

Tanzania

331 birds. 293 new.
37 mammals. 35 new.
We visited: Arusha; Manyara; Gibbs Farm; Ngorogoro Crater; Serengeti; Tarangire.

We saw many of the famous African mammals from Cheetahs, Lions, and Leopards to Elephants, Wildebeests and Zebras. Birds we saw included 3 different Turacos, Hartlaub's, Purple-crested, and Schalow's, as well as Red-and-Yellow Barbet, Secretary bird, African Broadbill, and several different species of Vulture.

A complete list is here.

Myself and my Dad took lots of pictures in Tanzania. Here are the better
ones.

Titchwell

Norfolk (Cley)

Today, I went to Cley and saw the general birds that  you can see there regularly; Avocets, Marsh Harriers, Greenshank, Sedge Warblers and the like, although a special bird of note was a Shorelark (a long way of and un-photographable.) But anyway, I took this opportunity to take some decent photos of the more common birds around Cley. The birds were perhaps easier to see and photograph as many of them had young with them, which is shown in some of these images…

 

   

 

 

 

Photographer of the month!

Baltic Gull

We went to north Cambridgeshire to look for Water Pipits but found none. Later we went to Lackford lakes to see the Baltic Gull (fuscus Lesser Black-backed) that was spending the rest of the cold weather there and we saw it sitting behind a mud bank. i drew this picture of it.

Great Grey Shrike

Today I went to the telescopes at Barton to see the Great Grey Shrike that had decided to stay there. After a previous failed attempt at seeing it, I saw it pretty much straight away, and decided to watch it until it flew off. I took a few pictures, not particularly good but OK for "proof" snaps.

Long-tailed Tit

There has been a Long-tailed Tit banging its head on pretty much all the windows of my house lately. This is probably because of its reflection in the window as they become quite territorial around this time of year. I took this opportunity to take a few pictures of it attempting to kill its reflection. Click the picture below to see the slide-show...

My dad also took some video on his phone.