New Jersey again

a selection of birds and other wildlife seen around the confines of my hotel in Princeton NJ.  Shame I missed migration but plenty of things to see all the same.

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?