Our first stop off today should have been stag rocks at Bamburgh,hoping to see the grebe's and divers reported there.As usual some thing stops us.this time it was the bloody traffic on the A1,black ice caused a few vehicles to crash, hope all is OK The detour ended us at Cresswell,I am glad we did as we bumped into the bike list birder for a good bit crack,sorry forgot his name but this bloke knows his stuff.Onto the hide to meet a fellow snapper,here is his sight
WWW.digiphotog.com (Derek bilton)I don't think he would mind, Derek done me a very good favour and let me uses his Nikon 500MM f4 lens on my camera to take the barn owl shot ,he was quit a distance away,but to get to see him made my day. further up the road at bells farm the field was occupied with four species of geese,200 plus pink feet,30 Canada geese,7 barnacle geese,and one bean goose,if I am not mistaken I think it was the taiga species,( so I was told)it was very east to identify it from the pink feet as its legs were a very bright orange,and the patch on the bill was a good orange colour also.Onto Druridge pools for a short visit,not a lot to report, teal, wigon,tufted,shell duck,and shoveler,gadwall, and heron,Not a lot there but still nice to see them,I was surprised to see so much water on the left hand side pool,lets hope it attracts more waders there.
on the coast next to hauxley reserve got to see plenty eider duck,and a large group common scoter I would say about 60 at least.and 5 red breasted merganser.well that it for today,highlight of the day was using a sooper dooper lens to capture the barn owl.(thanks Derek)
WILD FLOWERS
All wild flowers were taken over the past year,most of them in the Northumberland area.
A small collection of photos of our local birds
Most of these birds were photographed in the north east area.
the glossy ibis
my fist sighting of the glossy ibis was a good one, there it was right in front of the window,there was at least 15 people taking shots of it,must be the most photographed bird in the north east
and rightly so.
birds of pray
most of these birds were photographed in captivity,the ones with out names are not identified as yet.
SPARROWHAWK
TAKEN AT BIGWATERS
GOSHAWK
This bird was taken in on the borders of Scotland,
TRIP TO THE INNER FARNE
All photos were taken on the Inner farne Island on July of this year,this was my second trip to the Islands the first being to Staple Island last year.
2 comments:
Glad to see the Barn Owl although as accommodation goes his patch is four star. I think the gentleman you refer to is Andy McLevy and here's the link to his bike list.
http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/surfbirds/display.cgi?list=list360&lowVal=0&highVal=49
Better than my foot, car, boat and e mail alert list!
I love the pictures, they are fabulous.
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