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https://pewit.blogspot.com/2013/11/grey-heron-and-prey.html pewit: Grey Heron and prey grey heronpewitprey https://pewit.blogspot.com/2023/10/goldcrest-antics.html pewit: Goldcrest antics with a light south-easterly wind on Sunday 8th the expected arrival of wintering thrushes and other Scandinavian migrants duly materialise... pewitgoldcrestantics https://pewit.blogspot.com/2009/03/lk-and-moon.html pewit: LK and moon many thanks are due to Steve Fletcher for some excellent site info and some welcome cups of tea! Steve's web site can be found at http://www... pewitlkmoon https://pewit.blogspot.com/2005/06/adult-white-tail-varamger.html pewit Adult White-tail Varamger pewit https://pewit.blogspot.com/2018/10/two-days-seawatching.html pewit: two days seawatching Saturday on the Lincs coast -- 9 Short-eared Owls arriving in terrible weather off the sea -- variety of seabirds but nothing close for phot... two dayspewit https://pewit.blogspot.com/2019/06/may-25th-waterton-and-some-rain.html pewit: May 25th Waterton and some rain May 25 th : Heavy rain overnight and still dull with low cloud at dawn but calm at 8C warming up to 12C by midday with light rain showers... pewitmaywatertonrain https://pewit.blogspot.com/2008/04/female-ruppells.html pewit: female Ruppell's a distinctive 2cy bird but could it be a male? pewitfemale https://pewit.blogspot.com/2016/09/white-crowned-sparrows.html pewit: White-crowned Sparrows pewitwhitecrownedsparrows https://pewit.blogspot.com/2006/06/repeat-quail-show.html pewit: repeat Quail show a Quail calling within 3m of the car at Worlaby this evening refused to reveal itself so I went off watching baby Redshanks---when forced to... pewitrepeatquailshow https://pewit.blogspot.com/2021/12/white-tailed-lapwing-finally-in.html pewit: White-tailed Lapwing finally in Lincolnshire What a truly bizarre end to 2021; December 31st - in summary a set of house keys were lost this morning; we were going out for the day but h... pewitwhitelapwingfinallylincolnshire https://pewit.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-2nd-on-patch.html pewit: December 2nd on the patch on thepewitdecemberpatch https://pewit.blogspot.com/2007/06/spot-fly.html pewit: Spot Fly still not getting any decent Spotted Fly images but I liked the setting and the black backdrop on this shot pewitspotfly https://pewit.blogspot.com/2021/11/barnacle-geese-and-friend.html pewit: Barnacle Geese and friend Some of the upper Humber flock with one of the oddments, probably a Canada x Barnacle or back-cross -- probably one of the birds that has ... barnacle geesepewitfriend https://pewit.blogspot.com/2016/10/hudsonian-whimbrel.html pewit: Hudsonian Whimbrel these were without a doubt my favourite images from Vancouver island; the light was superb, the bird tame and approachable and the habitat n... pewitwhimbrel https://pewit.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-few-nonedescripts.html pewit: a few nonedescripts nice adult male Marsh Harrier and a 1cy bird, Fieldfare bird of the week with lots passing through, Black-tails and Knot and a lone Curly lo... a fewpewit https://pewit.blogspot.com/2019/09/juvenile-sanderling.html pewit: juvenile Sanderling surely one of the best looking juvenile waders pewitjuvenilesanderling https://pewit.blogspot.com/2009/12/bathing-merlin.html pewit: bathing Merlin well it kept trying but every time it settled in a puddle on this track up came some dog walkers, ignoring me there with a camera pointing ... pewitbathingmerlin https://pewit.blogspot.com/2014/07/pigeon-guillemots.html pewit: Pigeon Guillemots never close and usually against the light pewitpigeonguillemots https://pewit.blogspot.com/2007/04/back-from-aphrodites.html pewit: back from Aphrodite's a few reasonable pics to come from Cyprus when I get them sorted--- pewitbackaphrodite https://pewit.blogspot.com/2005/05/exceptional-occurrence-on-flooded.html pewit an exceptional occurrence on a flooded grass field pewit https://pewit.blogspot.com/2009/03/short-eared-on-foreshore.html pewit: Short-eared on the foreshore local patch environment shots; there is not much foreshore here but it seems to be getting a living on thepewitshortforeshore https://pewit.blogspot.com/2007/02/fight.html pewit: fight a couple of male Mute Swans having a set to and trying to drown the Slav Grebe in the process pewitfight https://pewit.blogspot.com/2016/10/hooded-merganser-and-harlequins.html pewit: Hooded Merganser and Harlequins hooded merganserpewitharlequins https://pewit.blogspot.com/2007/06/gilly.html pewit: gilly at least this Guilly had the decency to land on the cliff top path thereby excluding the fog from the foreground pewitgilly https://pewit.blogspot.com/2008/05/e-kingbird.html pewit: E Kingbird when you have a limited amount of time you sometimes have to take pics when the light is just too harsh and overhead or else come back witho... pewitkingbird https://pewit.blogspot.com/2016/12/sunrise-yesterday-proving-forebear-of.html pewit: sunrise yesterday -- proving the forebear of a nice turdus of apewitsunriseyesterdayproving https://pewit.blogspot.com/2018/11/woodcock-in-off.html pewit: Woodcock in off one on the long coastal walk on Saturday pewitwoodcock https://pewit.blogspot.com/2008/03/black-tail-explosion.html pewit: Black-tail explosion black tailpewitexplosion https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/10/hen-harrier.html?showComment=1286453052505 pewit: Hen Harrier some of the shots I have hoped for for several years -- a lot of bird photography is based on luck but being in the right place an... pewithenharrier https://pewit.blogspot.com/2017/12/sheld-duck.html pewit: Sheld Duck pewitduck https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/11/different-male-marsh-harrier.html pewit: different male Marsh Harrier just 1km from the first male harrier I came across another young adult male but a brighter more developed bird than the first -- it was ra... pewitdifferentmalemarshharrier https://pewit.blogspot.com/2009/08/moulting-sanderlings.html pewit: moulting Sanderlings huge numbers of moulting adult Sanderling were n the white sand beaches along with smaller numbers of Dunlin and Ringed Plovers -- it is dif... pewitmoultingsanderlings https://pewit.blogspot.com/2014/02/hairy-woodpeckers.html pewit: Hairy Woodpeckers pewithairywoodpeckers https://pewit.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-assassin.html pewit: the assassin at close range minus weasel pewitassassin https://pewit.blogspot.com/2013/12/feeding-parrot-crossbill.html pewit: feeding Parrot Crossbill a bit of S95 video taken last weekend pewitfeedingparrotcrossbill https://pewit.blogspot.com/2012/02/dark-bellied-brent-geese.html pewit: Dark-bellied Brent Geese pewitdarkbrentgeese https://pewit.blogspot.com/2007/12/rcp.html pewit: RcP what a smart drake; it accompanied a small flock of 53 Pochard and left with them for the Humber feeding grounds off New Holland late am; la... pewitrcp https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/08/chough-and-juvenile-black-guillemot.html pewit: Chough and juvenile Black Guillemot pewitchoughjuvenileblackguillemot https://pewit.blogspot.com/2014/04/black-necked-grebes-and-slav.html pewit: Black-necked Grebes and the Slav pair of these beauties on the local patch today -- of course I was elsewhere so thanks for the call Mike -- they were never close enough for... and thepewitblackgrebesslav https://pewit.blogspot.com/2008/01/assorted-ducks.html pewit: assorted ducks the sun shone for about 11 minutes this morning up here----the Shoveler were very close but the light was dire and at high ISO in poor light... pewitassortedducks https://pewit.blogspot.com/2019/06/may-20th-pakouki-prairies-richardsons.html pewit: May 20th Pakouki Prairies, Richardson's Ground squirrel and Pronghorns one of the areas where you can actually walk across the open prairie with no fences along the roadside -- the farmstead is abandoned but not... ground squirrelpewitmayprairies https://pewit.blogspot.com/2016/02/micro-goshawks.html pewit: micro Goshawks some excellent Goshawk watching on Wednesday at Wyekham but the viewpoint is rapidly becoming overgrown with birch scrub and trees blocking ... pewitmicro https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/08/blennerville-kerry.html pewit: Blennerville Kerry home of a particularly attractive gull see above! the location is rather more photogenic than the bird pewitblennervillekerry https://pewit.blogspot.com/2006/06/juvs.html pewit: juvs a brood of juvenile Swallows fledged from a nest under the drain bridge in Worlaby Carrs---amazingly I had only been there for about 30 minu... pewit https://pewit.blogspot.com/2020/05/garden-wildlife.html pewit: Garden Wildlife my very friendly House Sparrows, Blackbird, Woodpig, Collared Dove and some Bees and Taddies from the pond -- all taken with the Canon 5D4 a... pewitgardenwildlife https://pewit.blogspot.com/2016/11/ring-ouzel.html pewit: Ring Ouzel it was actually inside the tyre when I first saw it presumably drinking from water captured inside the tyre rim as its tail tip was moving u... pewitring https://pewit.blogspot.com/2013/12/first-light-at-patrington-haven.html pewit: first light at Patrington Haven first lightpewitpatrington https://pewit.blogspot.com/2014/07/humpback-whales.html pewit: Humpback Whales lets face facts you are on a whale watching boat for 5 hours so your chances of getting those images of whales that you would like are prett... pewithumpbackwhales https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/10/red-deer.html pewit: Red Deer no forecast of thick fog for this morning so I was out early and had to abandon my planned survey so wandered down to the Red Deer ... pewitreddeer https://pewit.blogspot.com/2019/12/juvenile-red-throated-diver-barton-pits.html pewit: juvenile Red-throated Diver Barton Pits quite a while since we had a long staying Red-throated Diver on the pits -- standard portraits and shots with a bit more atmosphere ... pewitjuvenileredthroateddiver https://pewit.blogspot.com/2016/01/goldeneye.html pewit: Goldeneye all wildfowl numbers really low around here this winter; did a full count of Pochard today and found 14 birds -- compares with up to 2000 in... pewitgoldeneye https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/12/common-and-black-headed-gulls.html pewit: Common and Black-headed Gulls another loaf of bread and some snow pewitcommonblackheadedgulls https://pewit.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-elusive-cettis-warbler.html pewit: the elusive Cetti's Warbler on of my autumn goals was to try and upgrade my Cetti's warbler gallery -- getting there slowly pewitelusivecettiwarbler https://pewit.blogspot.com/2007/12/more-meds.html pewit: more Meds pewitmeds https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/07/different-dragonfly-images.html pewit: different dragonfly images Common Darter up close and Black-tailed Skimmers perched and in flight -- all have their merits but I must admit I love to get a flight shot... pewitdifferentdragonflyimages https://pewit.blogspot.com/2009/05/meadow-pipit-dull-bird.html pewit: Meadow Pipit a dull bird not the most exciting of species meadow pipitpewitdullbird https://pewit.blogspot.com/2012/04/thayers-still-around.html pewit: Thayer's still around but no easier to get close to! pewitthayerstillaround https://pewit.blogspot.com/2009/01/january.html pewit: January in the depths of winter we again headed for the Camargue and Les Baux to try and photograph Wallcreepers; the weather was rather less than k... pewitjanuary https://pewit.blogspot.com/2013/12/common-buzzard.html pewit: Common Buzzard a chance passing bird in nice light; Canon 5D3 and 500f4II with 1.4x pewitcommonbuzzard https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/11/whooper-swan-2.html pewit: Whooper Swan 2 with a huge black snow cloud looming I thought I would try and get the Whooper in the superb light but as shown above things did not quite... whooper swanpewit https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/10/hen-harrier.html?showComment=1286471803436 pewit: Hen Harrier some of the shots I have hoped for for several years -- a lot of bird photography is based on luck but being in the right place an... pewithenharrier https://pewit.blogspot.com/2020/07/first-ginger-crowns-of-year.html pewit: First ginger crowns of the year always great to see some Marsh Harriers fledge successfully in what appears to be a poor year at least from evidence so far ... of thepewitfirstgingercrowns https://pewit.blogspot.com/2012/10/web-site-change.html pewit: web site change I have changed the address of my web site for now -- please access using the following link as opposed to the Nyctea link http://gcatley... web sitepewitchange https://pewit.blogspot.com/2007/04/pochard.html pewit: Pochard my local Pochard have never been very approachable this year pewitpochard https://pewit.blogspot.com/2020/06/marsh-warblers.html pewit: Marsh Warblers two different singing males from the June influx. -- first six bird one with song at end and second bird with its song ... pewitmarshwarblers https://pewit.blogspot.com/2009/09/spotted-flycatchers.html pewit: Spotted Flycatchers these were taken this morning between downpours all 500 + 1.4 on monopod, 800 ISO, between 125th and 200th second straight conversions from ... pewitspottedflycatchers https://pewit.blogspot.com/2005/06/juvenile-willow-tit-looking-for-its.html pewit juvenile Willow Tit looking for its own food pewit https://pewit.blogspot.com/2018/03/nutter.html pewit: Nutter on a dull wet day last week with time to pass in a wet wood I took a few Nuthatch images; no effort to make a nice perch but smart birds and... pewitnutter https://pewit.blogspot.com/2007/09/white-winger.html pewit: white-winger the forests of the Rockies seemed to be alive with White-winged and Red Crossbills due to a heavy spruce crop; most of the White-winged were... pewitwhitewinger https://pewit.blogspot.com/2011/12/mix-of-oddments.html pewit: a mix of oddments pewitmixoddments https://pewit.blogspot.com/2016/11/records-of-juvenile-pallid-harrier-in.html pewit: records of the juvenile Pallid Harrier in Lincs again never came that close so only pin prick images but when it was closest against the sky the 7D2 went on one of its holiday jaunts and f... of thepallid harrierpewitrecordsjuvenile https://pewit.blogspot.com/2009/04/fox-adders-and-mystery-bird.html pewit: Fox, adders and mystery bird pewitfoxaddersmysterybird https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-oriental-pratincoles.html pewit: more Oriental Pratincoles more active today when the sun shone but the light conditions were difficult pewitoriental https://pewit.blogspot.com/2007/11/return-of-smew.html pewit: return of the Smew checking the local pits today I came across this drake Smew--it must be last winter's bird as it was feeding in exactly the same spot in a s... of thepewitreturnsmew https://pewit.blogspot.com/2012/04/younger-male-montagus-harrier.html pewit: younger male Montagu's Harrier younger malepewitmontaguharrier https://pewit.blogspot.com/2009/05/pochard-drake.html pewit: Pochard drake this male was busy fighting off other drakes from his mate pewitpocharddrake https://pewit.blogspot.com/2009/06/couple-from-archive.html pewit: a couple from the archive two from Varanger 2006 a couplefrom thepewitarchive https://pewit.blogspot.com/2005/04/common-tern-showing-nice-precise-bill.html pewit Common Tern showing a nice precise bill and primary pattern pewit https://pewit.blogspot.com/2005/05/by-end-of-day-they-had-already-lost.html pewit by the end of the day they had already lost one cygnet pewit https://pewit.blogspot.com/2016/04/quick-trip-to-iceland.html pewit: quick trip to Iceland five days in Iceland with my daughter taking in some scenery and northern life; had not appreciated just how expensive it is for food and ac... pewitquicktripiceland https://pewit.blogspot.com/2007/04/flying-squacs.html pewit: flying Squacs I do like Squacco Herons but it is easy to overlook them when they are down in the vegetation as they are really quite small pewitflying https://pewit.blogspot.com/2016/09/spotted-crake.html pewit: Spotted Crake showing much better -- 3rd time lucky pewitspottedcrake https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/08/sedge-and-reed-warblers.html pewit: Sedge and Reed Warblers plenty of acros in the reedbeds still pewitsedgereedwarblers https://pewit.blogspot.com/2005/12/local-fowl.html pewit: local fowl the Slavonian Grebe still around Barton pits along with its larger cousin here--also a drake Teal caught on take off pewitlocalfowl https://pewit.blogspot.com/2014/07/sedge-warbler.html pewit: Sedge Warbler pewitsedgewarbler https://pewit.blogspot.com/2016/05/greater-sand-plovers.html pewit: Greater Sand Plovers heard about these two as we were on the way up to the Troodos; never thought they would stay all day on a busy, hot beach but still there wh... pewitgreatersandplovers https://pewit.blogspot.com/2014/09/juv-black-tails.html pewit: juv Black-tails pewitjuvblacktails https://pewit.blogspot.com/2014/03/pochards.html pewit: Pochards I am not really a lover of ducks but if you have to choose one drake Pochards take a bit of beating pewit https://pewit.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-cracking-male-snowy-owl.html pewit: a cracking male Snowy Owl perfect camo in this environment, less so on a post pewitcrackingmalesnowyowl https://pewit.blogspot.com/2020/09/brown-shrike.html pewit: Brown Shrike after the Wolds appreciation took on some dodgy diesel which caused my engine to decide to half die on Sutterton roundabout but after a few... pewitbrownshrike https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/05/late-may.html pewit: late May another dismal spring passage draws to a close -- after a night in the forest with plenty of Nightjar activity ( note the lack of Nightjars ... pewitlatemay https://pewit.blogspot.com/2023/11/red-throated-diver-away.html pewit: Red-throated Diver - away Not one but two juvenile Red-throated Divers on sailing pit yesterday and moving out of the way of the smaller boats until one faster vess... pewitredthroateddiveraway https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/08/black-tails-when-subject-poses-stick.html pewit: Black-tails --when a subject poses stick with it will one of these shots show a bird with black axillaries and underwing coverts on the Humber again one day? its 29 and 27 years since the l... pewitblacktailssubjectposes https://pewit.blogspot.com/2018/08/local-birds.html pewit: local birds the eclipse drake Garganey still present at Barton, Black-tailed Godwits at Killingholme up to 4300 before the water level was raised to a s... pewitlocalbirds https://pewit.blogspot.com/2007/05/cygnets.html pewit: cygnets the Waters' Edge first brood--some finding it just too tiring pewitcygnets https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/11/bittern.html pewit: Bittern sometimes a bird just happens to fly in front of a nice backdrop and that makes all the difference to a picture --oh and always use manua... pewitbittern https://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/04/tree-pipits.html pewit: Tree Pipits my first session in the forest since the trivialis arrived -- at least 14 males on site today and odd females passing through and causing th... pewittreepipits https://pewit.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-flood.html pewit: the flood Winterton Carrs -- the flood water pushed up the Ancholme Valley as far as Appleby Carrs pewitflood https://pewit.blogspot.com/2019/07/butterflies-of-day.html pewit: butterflies of the day big influx of Painted Ladies (81) counted on one forest ride today plus 190 Peacocks same ride and a few Red Admirals plus a couple of Brims... of thepewitbutterfliesday https://pewit.blogspot.com/2020/11/female-bearded-tit.html pewit: female Bearded Tit when you have so many images of a species something slightly different always stands out even if its not technically perfect pewitfemalebeardedtit