Iceland (Day 5)

 

Glaucous Gull

Ringed Plover

Glaucous Gull

Herring Gull

Glaucous Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Kittiwake

Glaucous Gull

Oare Marshes

 

Ringed Plover

Lesvos (Day 8)

 

Collared Pratincole

Long-eared Owl

Masked Shrike

Short-toed Eagle

Short-toed Eagle

Long-legged Buzzard

Crested Lark

Squacco Heron

Black-headed Bunting

Scops Owl

Ringed Plover

Little Stint

Little Stint

Kentish Plover

Oare Marshes, late afternoon high tide.

Curlew Sandpiper

Curlew Sandpiper

Spoonbill

Little Stint in front of the two Cormorant (honest!)

Ringed Plover, Little Stint, Dunlin

 

Spurn, Yorkshire

Lesser Whitethroat

Gadwall

Jack Snipe

Spoonbill

Ringed Plover

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Whitethroat

Faversham Creek & South Swale

 

Brambling & Chaffinch mixed flock

Nell enjoying her 8 mile walk

Castle Coote (South Swale)

Ringed Plover

Ringed Plover

Avocet

Spitfire

Oystercatcher

Yellowhammer

Little Egret & Teal

Teal

Greenshank

Little Egret

Reculver and Oare (Kent)

Arrived at Reculver in bright conditions with north westerly winds. There were already a large number of observers gathered among the towers sheltering from the wind and searching for seabirds. From 09:00 till 14:30 we counted in excess of 200 Gannets moving west, 3 Swallows, 25 Sandwich Terns, c15 Wigeon west, 1 Common Scoter east, 30+ Great Skua west, 5 Arctic Skua, 2 Divers, 1 Auk and great views of a single Snow Bunting on the grass area just inland.

After, we visited Oare to view the very distant Sabines Gull that had been hanging around the Swale since this morning, where we also saw: Spoonbill (1), Great Skua (3), Arctic Skua (1), Gannet (25), Common Scoter (3), Avocet (60), juvenile Little Stint (1) and Swallow (6).

Snow Bunting

Herring Gull

Gannet

Great Skua

Ringed Plover

Ruff & Golden Plover