I came across - well searched for them actually - some more excellent photographs amongst which I found these two young little beauties which will one day become....
Kestrel. Phil Slade
Two smart little raptors like this male Kestrel.
Now this bird with the staring eyes you wouldn't want staring at you if you was a small bird, was the very same individual photographed a few days later in the garden of a birder in Kent - whose website I follow daily - and which was observed to take out another bird regular to the feeders in the same garden which was a....
Sparrowhawk/Great-spotted Woodpecker. Warren Baker
Great-spotted Woodpecker....Not a nice sight but nature at its rawest and the price to pay by the bird for visiting the feeder, and the price to pay by us for putting out the feeders.
And a couple of 'gulls' I'm not likely to misidentify if/when I come across them....
Yet another smart bird, an adult Iceland Gull on the Isle of Islay where Colin visited this very month. Thanks for this Colin....nice one.
And finally....
I think I'm going to know this bird if I ever find one. I missed a Slender-billed Gull in Norfolk for one day on 5 May 2000, I arrived at Cley the following day. Another one of PS's Egypt specials on his recent visit there....Excellent photographs as ever Phil and many thanks.
I agree with you on the Slender billed gull Pete, not one to get confused with !
ReplyDeletePS: still got two GS Woodies at the feeders, lets hope they don't end up as a second and third course :-(
I've edited the post having remembered I missed a SBG by a day as noted in the edit.
ReplyDeleteHope your GSW's have eyes in the back of their heads Warren.