Distant Dotterel

East Yorkshire Wildlife August 13, 2010

I was pleased to finally add adotterel image to my collection the other night.
The first i heard of it was on Tuesday but I couldn't get there so fortunately it hung around and I was able to catch up with it on Wednesday.
The bird was feeding in a tilled field between Tansterne and West carlton which basically is in the middle of nowhere, I was lucky enough to arrive at the site with birders already on it.
It kept its distance while i was there and I would say the nearest it came was about 70m.
The light was good and coming from the right direction so all in all a pleasing nights work.

Kingfisher

East Yorkshire Wildlife August 3, 2010

I thought i'd spend a couple of hours at a local spot this evening looking for kingfishers.
I only had to wait 20 minutes until this fellow turned up.
He disappeared for a while then came back and stayed longer catching a single fish. he tried for another and failed and that seemed to signal his time to go.
Nice.

Just Like the Med...

East Yorkshire Wildlife July 25, 2010

I've been down to Pat haven a couple of times this week both on glorious summer evenings with hardly any wind.
The main focus has been on gulls with an impressive amount including black headed, common, lesser and great black backed,yellow legged flyover little and my first mediterranean gull at this spot.
The wader numbers on the lagoon have been down due to the small tides, but still there has been a green sandpiper, greenshank,whimbrel and a brightly coloured black tailed godwit with a smattering of common waders.
Just for added interest there has been at least 5 little egrets and they have been active around the lagoon feeding on small fish and shrimp.