Friday, December 2, 2011

Egrets, Pelicans, Storks and Herons

           Black Heron


                   Great Cormorant


           Great Egret

                Great White Pelican


           Hamerkop

           Long Tailed Cormorant


             Marabou Stork


               Pink Backed Pelican

            Squacco heron


            Western Reef Heron

Bustards

             Arabian Bustard


          Kori Bustard

Thrushes

           African Thrush


           Mountain Thrush

          Little Rock Thrush

Ethiopia Birds

                     Cape Teal

          Common Sandpiper

        Cordon Bleu

             Greenshank

          Cameroptera

                Somali Bunting


               Streaky Seedeater


            Wire Tailed Swallows


                  Desert and Isabaline Wheatear

           White Browed Sparrow Weaver

         White Faced Whistling Duck

               Wood Sandpiper

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Desert Wheatear



Bempton Cliffs. Went the day after we got back from Ethiopia and just about got hypothermia !!

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Isabelline Wheatear











Spurn Point, Saturday 5th November. Glad we saw this as it had gone by the following morning. A new UK bird for Karen bringing her UK total to 307. Other birds of interest during the day were hooded crow, scaup and twite.

Bittern






Messingham Sand Quarry today