© Katie Fuller
Monday, May 31, 2004
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Sunday, May 16, 2004
Friday, May 14, 2004
Sunday, May 09, 2004
Sunday, April 25, 2004
Hoopoe at Stibbington GP
© Kit Day
© Brian Stone
© Katie Fuller
Another top find by local recorder Brian Stone: "Arriving to do my WeBS count at Stibbington this morning, I flushed a Hoopoe from the entrance track. A year and ten days since the one I saw at Elton Furze!
"The bird is returning to feed alongside the hardstanding near the start of the track near the Hall. Coming into the village from the A1, park carefully before the track and approach with caution, staying back from the Private sign. Grid ref: TL087987."
Friday, April 23, 2004
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Sunday, April 18, 2004
Saturday, April 17, 2004
Friday, April 16, 2004
Wheatear at Ferry Meadows CP
© Katie Fuller
Passage has been a bit slow this year, so this male Wheatear was a nice find on the edge of Coney Meadow and Lynch Lake.
Grey Partridge at Baston & Langtoft GP
© Will Bowell
The male Grey Partridge has a brighter face than the female. Nationally, the species has declined massively in recent years. Sympathetic farming methods, like those practiced nearby by Nicholas Watts, can help.
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Blue-headed Wagtail at Prior's Fen GP
© Kevin Du Rose
This bird is a bit different to our usual Yellow Wagtails that breed in the area (subspecies flavissima). Its very pale head looks like the eastern European Blue-headed race, beema (known as Sykes's Wagtail), though it could perhaps be a flavissima/flava hybrid.
Yellow Wagtail races merge into each other so there may be no definitive answer!
Monday, April 12, 2004
Saturday, April 10, 2004
Friday, April 09, 2004
Sunday, April 04, 2004
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Monday, March 22, 2004
Brambling at Baston & Langtoft GP
© Josh Jones
Winter 2003/2004 has seen up to three Bramblings feeding around Park Farm in the company of Greenfinches and Chaffinches. Note the contrast in rump colour: white for Brambling, green for Chaffinch.
Little Ringed Plover at Baston & Langtoft GP
© Josh Jones
Little Ringed Plover is one of the earliest spring migrants to arrive in the PBC area.
Features which tell this species from the similar Ringed Plover include the yellow eye-ring (especially distinct on males like this bird), the flesh-coloured legs (orange on Ringed Plover), the smaller size, the all-dark bill (orange and black on Ringed) and the lack of white wing-bar in flight.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Brambling at Crowtree, Farcet Fen
© Steve Dudley
The buff tips on this male bird's black head feathers have nearly all worn off, revealing his smart breeding plumage.
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Saturday, February 28, 2004
Saturday, February 21, 2004
Hawfinch at Castor Hanglands NNR
© Josh Jones
This Hawfinch was found at Castor Hanglands NNR, a couple of months after Kevin Du Rose saw one at Milton Park, a few miles east. The extensive blue in the wing and smart contrast between the chestnut of the head and grey nape make it a male.
Hawfinches are notoriously shy, quiet birds, so Josh Jones did a great job to get these digiscoped photos.
He says: "An incredible bird. It allowed us to get within 20 feet, though it did stay in the middle of the hawthorns. We first saw it showing in the open, but our dog flushed it (sigh)!"
Sunday, February 15, 2004
Iceland Gull at Eye tip
© Kevin Du Rose
Along with hundreds of other gulls, this pale, worn first-winter bird was attracted to the tipping activity near Eye. Taken with Nikon Coolpix 880, Kowa scope and sawn-off plastic milk bottle lid adapter!
Sunday, February 08, 2004
Friday, January 30, 2004
Glaucous Gull at Prior's Fen
© Steve Dudley
This first-winter bird was first seen on January 2 at Eye tip. It turned up in a field containing a herd of Bewick's Swans just off Willow Hall Lane on January 30, where viewing was much easier.
Sunday, January 18, 2004
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