BOULTHAM MERE

GREEN WINGED TEAL

2012-01-15T18:18:00.000Z

Eyebrook Res

TUNDRA BEAN GOOSE

2012-01-08T17:51:00.000Z

Holkeham Norfolk
Decent views in good light for a change, in field next to car park with Pinks.

GREAT GREY SHRIKE

2012-01-08T17:44:00.000Z

Fakenham Norfolk
Some birders tend to think it shows characters of HOMEYERI, being outside the range of Excubitor on some of these features
Overall pallid appearance
Upperparts clean pale grey
Short to medium primary projection similar to excubitor
Large whiteblurry scapular patches
Paler greyish white rump and uppertail coverts, paler than upperparts
Plae greyish lores with dark line along lower edge
Pale pinky hue's in bill base
Very large rectangular white primary patch, about half lenght of exposed secondaries
Massive amounts of white in tail
Though i dont think you can see any of these features on my poor distant pics of it.

Little Egret

2012-01-08T17:36:00.001Z

Walked towards the hide but too many teds in there and they flushed it.

PINK FOOTED GOOSE

2012-01-08T17:33:00.000Z

Holkeham, 15,000 to scan through we had two Ross's and eight Banacles and a stunning Tundra Bean.

DARK BELLIED BRENT

2012-01-08T17:30:00.001Z

Not as many Brent in Norfolk this winter, too mild perhaps.

YELLOW THROATED WARBLER

2012-01-07T17:59:00.000Z

One of these in Britian would draw thousands of birders.

YELLOW BILLED CUCKOO

2012-01-07T17:57:00.000Z

Common around the resort.

YELLOW CROWNED NIGHT HERON

2012-01-07T17:54:00.000Z

A new bird for me, seen everyday near the hotel.

YELLOW WARBLER SP

2012-01-07T13:27:00.000Z

Look at the Yellow warbler below this one, i have seen hundreds of them in Mexico and here in Cuba, but never anything like this one, it must be a race of some sort, the nearest i can get is the one from Florida.

YELLOW WARBLER

2012-01-07T13:23:00.000Z

WESTERN SPINDALIS

2012-01-07T13:21:00.002Z

PARULA WARBLER

2012-01-07T13:19:00.002Z

This is really an awesome bird, never seen one in Britian.

TURNSTONE

2012-01-07T13:18:00.002Z

On the beach in cuba

GREAT WHITE EGRET

2012-01-06T19:41:00.000Z

Kirkby On Bain Pits, New years day, distant record shot on second pit on left as you walk up the road towards the tip gates.

SHORT EARED OWL

2012-01-06T19:40:00.000Z

Nocton Fen New Years Day, Six birds seen though light not good.

SHORT EARED OWL

2012-01-06T19:38:00.003Z

SHORT EARED OWL

2012-01-06T19:37:00.006Z

SHORT EARED OWL

2012-01-06T19:37:00.002Z

SHORT EARED OWL

2012-01-06T19:36:00.001Z

SHORT EARED OWL

2012-01-06T19:35:00.000Z

CUBA

2012-01-06T19:33:00.004Z

Few more images from Cuba October 2011

TURKEY VULTURE

2012-01-06T19:33:00.001Z

SPOTTED SANDPIPER

2012-01-06T19:32:00.002Z

WESTERN SPINDALIS

2012-01-06T19:31:00.002Z

WADERS

2012-01-06T19:30:00.000Z

Black necked Stilt, Lesser Yellowlegs and a Stilt Sandpiper, awesome.

BLACK NECKED STILT

2012-01-06T19:29:00.002Z

STILT SANDPIPER

2012-01-06T19:28:00.003Z

See below for why i only saw this Mega on the last day.

SEMI PALMATED SANDPIPER

2012-01-06T19:24:00.000Z

On the very last day a new guy on security at the sewage works let me in, though i could not get close i managed to get this Semi P and some other good waders.

RUFOUS SHOULDERED BLACKBIRD

2012-01-06T19:22:00.002Z

ROSE BREASTED GROSBEAK

2012-01-06T19:17:00.000Z

Only one i saw, present in the evening around the lake.

RED LEGGED THRUSH

2012-01-06T19:15:00.003Z

RED EYED VIREO

2012-01-06T19:15:00.000Z

About time we had one of these in Lincs.

WESTERN SANDPIPER

2011-12-04T12:01:00.000Z

CLEY
Very difficult to seperate from Semi-palmated Sandpiper, hearing them call helps, they go on about the bill lenght but Eastern Semi P has a bill as long as Western.

ARCTIC REDPOLL

2011-12-04T11:59:00.003Z

Titchwell, a good find feeding around the info centre with Lesser's and Mealy's.

Mealy Redpoll

2011-12-04T11:57:00.004Z

Titchwell
Why this place seems to get them every year is a mystery.

wigeon

2011-12-04T11:56:00.000Z

Golden Plover

2011-12-04T11:55:00.000Z

White Fronted Goose

2011-12-04T11:54:00.000Z

Teal

2011-12-04T11:53:00.000Z

WHITE STORK

2011-11-30T17:47:00.000Z

Spion Kop
On the football field and horse paddock, we know its an escape but people were saying it had an injured leg and a rubber band just above the foot, it was walking allright when we were there, and theres no rubber band either.

PRAIRIE WARBLER

2011-11-22T12:05:00.000Z

Stunning bird.

EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE

2011-11-21T20:55:00.005Z

One of the best birds i saw, as i walked down a track near hotel i found the first one then two more, this was the last one, all three could be watched flycatching at the same time, they stayed in the same area for a few days then two left and a couple of days later the third one left. Very difficult to identify as several Flycatchers Pewees etc pass through Cuba from North America, i had to identify these from the photos i took, hope they are right.

2011-11-21T20:54:00.000Z

This was the second bird, perched 20yards from first.

EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE

2011-11-21T20:51:00.000Z

This was the first one seen

PALM WARBLER

2011-11-21T20:50:00.000Z

OVENBIRD

2011-11-21T20:47:00.000Z

Really hard to see, odd birds just out of hotel grounds, then one popped from behind the leaves of a tree right in front of our balcony, awesome.

NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH

2011-11-21T20:44:00.000Z

Commonest of the two waterthrushes.

NORTHERN ORIOLE

2011-11-21T20:43:00.000Z

AMERICAN MOURNING DOVE

2011-11-21T20:42:00.000Z

NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD

2011-11-21T20:41:00.001Z

MANGROVE CUCKOO

2011-11-21T20:40:00.000Z

Only seen around the lake mangroves at the hotel.

MAGNOLIA WARBLER

2011-11-21T20:39:00.000Z

Only a couple seen all around hotel area.

GREAT LIZARD CUCKOO

2011-11-21T20:36:00.002Z

The one and only one i saw, near Hotel, a massive bird almost two foot long with that tail.

LESSER YELLOWLEGS

2011-11-21T20:36:00.000Z

LITTLE BLUE HERON

2011-11-21T20:22:00.000Z

TRICOLOURED HERON

2011-11-21T20:21:00.000Z

Only this single bird seen and always very distant.

HELMETED GUINEAFOWL

2011-11-21T20:19:00.000Z

A very rare introduced species to Cuba, walked across road early one morning.

AMERICAN GREAT WHITE EGRET

2011-11-21T20:18:00.000Z

GREY KINGBIRD

2011-11-21T20:17:00.000Z

GREY CATBIRD

2011-11-21T20:15:00.001Z

One and only sighting, early morning against the sun near the hotel, came out when pishing for Warblers.

GREEN HERON

2011-11-21T20:15:00.000Z

GREAT BLUE HERON

2011-11-21T20:14:00.000Z

COMMON GRASSQUIT

2011-11-21T20:12:00.000Z

Common around hotel grounds, we also saw a couple of Cuban Grassquits up in the mountains.

BLUE GREY GNATCATCHER

2011-11-21T20:11:00.000Z

This one was just up the road from the hotel.

WHITE WINGED DOVE

2011-11-21T20:10:00.000Z

Very flighty, so this one was a bonus.

KILLDEER

2011-11-21T20:09:00.000Z

LOGGERHEAD KINGBIRD

2011-11-21T20:04:00.000Z

Very difficult to tell from Eastern Kingbird, but large bill on this species helped.

EASTERN KINGBIRD

2011-11-21T20:02:00.000Z

Differs from Loggerhead Kingbird (above) in having a smaller bill.

CUBAN PYGMY OWL

2011-11-21T20:00:00.000Z

AMERICAN KESTREL

2011-11-21T19:59:00.000Z

Cuban Kestrel would be better as this is a race of American.

CUBAN GREEN WOODPECKER

2011-11-21T19:57:00.000Z

CUBAN EMERALD

2011-11-21T19:56:00.004Z

COMMON YELLOWTHROAT

2011-11-21T19:55:00.000Z

Not so Common, only two birds seen.

CAPE MAY WARBLER

2011-11-21T19:53:00.001Z

BLUE GREY GNATCATCHER

2011-11-21T19:52:00.000Z

BLACKPOLL WARBLER

2011-11-21T19:49:00.000Z

Quite common around hotel.

BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER

2011-11-21T19:46:00.000Z

Another new wood warbler, only seen a couple of times though, very elusive sat deep in trees when pisshing and not coming out with other warblers.

BLACK THROATED BLUE WARBLER

2011-11-21T19:44:00.000Z

A stunning addition to my ever growing yank warbler list, several seen most days, females and Juvs look plain brown.

GREATER ANTILLIEAN ORIOLE

2011-11-21T19:38:00.000Z

Split from Black cowled oriole, four species in West Indies that should all be split again into four species as they differ significantly

GREATER ANTILLIEAN ORIOLE

2011-11-21T19:37:00.000Z

Juvenile, this one caught me out, so i was pleased that i could identify it once i got home

BELTED KINGFISHER

2011-11-21T19:33:00.002Z

BAY BREASTED WARBLER

2011-11-21T19:32:00.002Z

A cracking addition to my North American Wood Warbler list, only single birds seen on odd days.

SMOOTH BILLED ANI

2011-11-21T19:31:00.002Z

Very noisy in mornings.

TERRAPIN

2011-11-13T10:34:00.000Z

Just crawled out of the hotels sewage pool.

SHINY COWBIRD

2011-11-13T10:32:00.002Z

Not a clue what this was when it popped up onto this tree, good job it sat there for ten minutes.

RUFOUS SHOULDERED BLACKBIRD

2011-11-13T10:31:00.000Z

Common in ther complex 40-50 in trees near reception.

PEREGRINE

2011-11-13T10:29:00.002Z

BROWN PELICAN

2011-11-13T10:29:00.000Z

Sat on the lake one morning.

OVENBIRD

2011-11-13T10:25:00.000Z

One of our best finds, we left the complex one evening for a walk to the main road (watch 50's and 60's american cars driving past)i had brief views of a Waterthrush so pisshed it out in the open then this little gem flew up and perched with the waterthrush for a second then flew across the road, we found it again on the ground but it was hard to see at times.

NEOTROPICAL CORMORANT

2011-11-13T10:20:00.003Z

MOURNING DOVE

2011-11-13T10:20:00.001Z

LOGGERHEAD KINGBIRD

2011-11-13T10:19:00.001Z

LIZARDS CUBA

2011-11-13T10:18:00.001Z

LITTLE BLUE HERON

2011-11-13T10:15:00.002Z

Adult and Juv the Juvenile is the white bird

LIZARDS

2011-11-13T10:14:00.002Z

GREY KINGBIRD

2011-11-13T10:14:00.000Z

Somedays quite common with a dozen or so sat in one tree.

LIZARD

2011-11-13T10:12:00.000Z

GREAT BLUE HERON

2011-11-13T10:09:00.004Z

GREATER ANTILLEAN GRACKLE

2011-11-13T10:09:00.002Z