The pictures have been taken with bridge cameras, then after 2017 with a Nikon SLR camera Return to main Birds page Pictures since 2017 with Nikon SLR camera |
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| Scotland: chaffinch, meadow pipit, rock pipit, dipper, gannet, greylag goose, herring gull, common gull. The first pictures show single pics of all the birds. Then more of the same [I like them so much]. For other Scotland pictures |
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| Blashford lakes: kingfisher, mallard, great crested grebes [nesting], nesting coot, sand martins, little ringed plover, lapwing, common sandpiper, greay-lag gees | ||
| Pennington Marshes:24/04/2010 shelduck, swan, tufted duck, gadwall, shoveller, cormorant, black-tailed godwit, little ringed plover, reed bunting, linnet, greenfinch, song thrush, whitethroat TOP | ||
| Pennington Marshes: 05/10/2010. Stone chats, Wheatear, Little egret, Grey wagtail, Canada and Brent geese, Barnacle goose, Widgeon, Gadwall. [Not snapped: golden plover, black back gulls, greenshank, redshank, dunlin. | ||
| Scotland September 10th - 18th 2010 Mainly Cairngorms and North of Ullapool TOP | |
| Clachtoll, North of Ullapool. Common gulls in foreground of campsite | Ullapool. View from van with Herring gulls. Note two sizes [why?] |
| Dipper in Cairngorms | Chaffinches and house sparrow at Morvich |
| Rock pipit at Clachtoll | Meadow pipit. Morvich. Poor pic for comparison with rock pipit |
| Oystercatchers at Ullapool | Turnstones at Ullapool |
| Herring gull at Ullapool | Common gulls [note greenish bill & legs and white wingtip] |
| Gannet | Greylag geese |
| Heron at Morvich | From campsite at Morvich [Greylags in foreground] |
| More pictures of the same birds | |
| Common gulls | |
| Gannets | |
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| Blashford lakes near Ringwood 16th August 2010 TOP |
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| Kingfisher | |
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| Great crested grebe | Great crested grebe, juvenile |
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| Great crested grebe. There were eggs on the nest [in August!] | |
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| Great crested grebe | Mother mallard with young |
| Blashford lakes May19th 2011 | |
| young grebe | Grey-lag geese |
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| Little ringed plover | |
| Common sandpiper | |
| Sandmartins | |
| Lapwing | |
| Coot | |
| mummy and baby coot | |
| Coot mummy and baby | Dunnock singing in the woods |
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| Pennington marshes April 24th 2010 TOP of Pictures | |
| Mute swan with coot and tufted duck | Shelducks |
| Shelduck | Tufted duck |
| Gadwall | Shoveler |
| Black-tailed godwit | Little ringed plover [identified by yellow eye ring] |
| Reed Bunting, male | Reed Bunting female |
| Linnet | Greenfinch, female |
| Whitethroat | Songthrush |
| Cormorant [by road at Keyhaven] | |
| Pennington marshes October 5th 2010 | |
| Part of large flock of canada geese | A lone Barnacle goose come for the winter |
| Brent geese just arrived from Siberia | A resident little egret showing off yellow foot |
| Gadwall [female also was there] | One of many widgeon |
| Grey wagtail | Meadow pipit |
| Male stonechat | Female stonechat |
| Wheatear on his way south | |
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