Farm Birds

Dusky Maiden

Female Dusky Thrush - Margate cemetery, Kent.  A great day out!

Yorks Gos

Highlight of a couple of days birding in Yorkshire was this obliging Goshawk.

Chance Encounter

A complete chance encounter whilst driving to Dereham on Monday to have my camera fixed at Norfolk Camera.
I'd stopped by the roadside to take a call and immediately saw two birds moving in an area of game strip, only for one to settle down as likely to be at the nest.  A quick fumble with the digiscope and V1 bagged me a distant record shot at a location I'd probably never find again if I tried! 
Schedule 1 breeding birds aren't things I try and find but in this case, the birds found me!

Distant Digispoon

testing the limitations of my new Nikon V1 connected to my Leica scope - Biggleswade's resident, and my first county Spoonbill at approx 100m

Spring at last

Selection of birds at Dunwich Heath on Saturday and Willington on Sunday.

Is Spring Extinct?

Well if you want to see hirundines this spring then I guess you need to be inventive.  This one seemed quite settled at the Natural History Museum on Monday.

There is an exhibition on Extinction currently showing - all a bit Jurassic Park and likely to engender those who wont bother to much if we lose the odd species knowing we can re-engineer them at some point in the future.  I wonder where they will put them and what they might feed on?  And what species would you want to bring back?

Be nice if they can grow a few of these though?  CAT F?

Ethiopian Image Montage

Love the funky Ethiopian backing track from Gigi.

Endemic Selection

A few of the endemic species easily seen in Ethiopia.  Species shown, Banded Barbet, Abyssinian Owl, Blue-winged Goose, Rouget's Rail, Black-winged Lovebird, Thick-billed Raven, Ethiopian Siskin, Brown-rumped Seedeater, White-billed Starling, White-collared Pigeon, Wattled Ibis and White-winged Cliff-Chat.

Wolfie

The world's rarest canid and Africa's most endangered carnivore.

Fly Overs

A small selection of my images from Ethiopia - what a superb country for birds!

A Hearty Breakfast

At a local butcher's north of Addis Ababa.  Might need to review the garden feeders to see if I can pick up a few exotics!

Beardies

Great spectacle watching a pair of Lammergeier being mobbed by Fan-tailed Ravens from the Portuguese Bridge Hotel, Debre Libanos north of Addis Ababa.

First Redpolls of the year

The local birds are hungry in the recent freeze and a few feeding Redpolls are more confiding than I'm used to.  Good to see the local Kingfisher still on the river following the Christmas floods.