Friday, December 02, 2022

PBC Bird of the Year: Red-flanked Bluetail, DLLWT

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Found by a visiting birder (or birders?) from Devon at Deeping Lakes on Tuesday 29 November. Relocated by Paul Bolton on Friday 2 December. PBC Bird of the year!

Tuesday, November 08, 2022

More Highlands birds

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Shag, BurgheadImage
Redshanks, Brora
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Guillemot, Burghead
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Slavonian Grebe, Udale Bay
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Rock Pipit, Burghead
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Pink-footed Geese, Nigg Bay (including a whopper!)
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Red-throated Diver, Burghead
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Rock Pipit, Hopeman
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Golden Eagle, Strathdearn

Dipper at Carrbridge

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Purple Sandpipers at Brora (with Rock Pipit and Turnstones)

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Fleetie, the Loch Fleet Monster

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[a couple of Grey Seals, really]

Shag at Burghead

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

10 Whooper Swans at Deeping Lakes LWT

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Cute, pale Goldcrest, near Helpston

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Found by my friend Hugh Wright at Ben Johnson Pit. I have never seen an abberantly plumaged Goldcrest before. Leucism?