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E is for Egret
Ardea alba ssp. alba
Eurasian Great Egret
also known as the common egret, large egret, great white egret, or great white heron
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D is for Dunnock
Prunella modularis
Dunnock
Also known as the Hedge Sparrow, even though it isn't actually a Sparrow
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C is for Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebs
Common Chaffinch
Once upon a time, a common garden bird, but numbers now decimated by disease and the neighbour's cats.
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B is for Bullfinch
Male and Female in the interests of equality
#2 in a series of (up to) 26
Pyrrhula pyrrhula
Eurasian Bullfinch
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A is for Avocet
#1 in a series of (up to) 26
Recurvirostra avosetta
Pied Avocet
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Putting on a Show
It's that time of year when the grebes are displaying.
Podiceps cristatus
Great Crested Grebe
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Birds of a Feather Flock Together
And such pretty feathers they have too, such a shame they haven't got a good PR agent, just because they are loud and ever so slightly violent at feeding time...
Sturnus vulgaris
Common Starling
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Once Bittern, Twice Shy
Botaurus stellaris ssp. stellaris
Common Eurasian Bittern
Often heard, rarely seen.... just like someone else I know...
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Shooting into the Sun
Panurus biarmicus
Bearded Tit or Bearded Reedling, depending on where you're from.
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The Remainer
It's beginning to look like this solitary Whooper Swan is going to apply for a UK passport. Normally they only come here for the winter and return to Iceland for the summer breeding season. This one can fly but seems to like it around here.
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Meet my new friend, Leo...
Asio otus ssp. otus
Eurasian Long-eared Owl
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You Looking at Me, Kid?
Just Answer the Question...
Acanthis flammea ssp. cabaret
Lesser Redpoll
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Ner ner ner ner ner!
Bet you can't hang from a tree like me
Aegithalos caudatus
Long-tailed Tit
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Met up with a good old friend who was in the area for some twitching; I wasn't able to join him to see the American Pipit but we did head down to Goswick to see a very, very, very, very, very, very distant Black Scoter. Visible only through someone's very expensive telescope. "Oh yes" i said enthusiastically at black dot with a bright orange bit bobbing on the sea.