Dave Farrow

220126 should be 🙄

Purple Sandpiper on rocks, Sea Palling

Purple Sandpiper, Sea Palling 210126
Always happy to meet this chap, nice and close too
#NorfolkBirding
#UKbirding

He's a good boy

On my old Huawei, Google photos stabiliser function in edit used to work well, now it seems to make it worse!

Plenty of Redwings around Norwich today. I found these feeding on ivy berries in a hedge near Arminghall.

The best bird there, isn't it!

Short-eared Owl. Hidden in grass

Short-eared Owl

Hidden in dune grass

#NorfolkBirding #owls

Rough-legged Buzzard sat in a Norfolk field

A New Year gift - Rough-legged Buzzard along the back lanes en route to the Norfolk coast, near Gresham village. Initially hovering close overhead, drifted down into a field by the time I could safely stop. Sat for a while before departing westward. No sexy pictures. #norfolkbirding

I cannot see your cock. It is too small?

Sea and sky, between Obi and Bacan

Sea and sky, between Obi and Bacan
#indonesia

European Hornet

European Hornet
Vespa crabro
Norwich 020925
Chewing on a rotting log down by the River Yare
Not often I get a chance to get a photo of one of these
#entemology #bugsky #norwichwildlife #vespa

Willow Emerald on nettle leaf

Willow Emerald, Norwich 020925
Always nice to see the dainty chaps down on the patch

#bugsky #odonata #entemology

Sole Bay, Zitting Cisticola family nearby!

2/2 Zitting Cisticolas
Clearly juveniles present with prominent pink bill bases/gapes, short tails, streaky crowns, also the presumed male (dull crown) coming with a mouthful of insects. Later 4 birds seen flying through the reeds, with 5 suspected, as reported later. Alas no photo
#UKBirding

Decided a return visit to Walberswick was needed to improve on views of the Zitting Cisticola and try to get sound recordings. After finally getting a perched view, decided to hang on for more...
I didn't expect to get three together in my scope! Two rounds of views, now up to four birds! #UKBirding

Eurasian Skylark

Eurasian Skylark

Eurasian Skylark / Toyota Yaris

Distant phonescoped record shot of the Merlin

Eurasian Skylark _ Alauda arvensis
An unexpected guest in my car while I was sitting in it! Escaping being eaten by a pursuing Merlin, once I had moved aside he flew out and went straight into a vigorous ascending songflight. The Merlin had to find its dinner elsewhere

Little Gull at Whitlingham Great Broad this morning.
One of three, near-adult plumage.
#norfolkbirding #norwichwildlife #gulls #migrants

Cramp balls eh? Nice.

Steller's Sea Eagle

From my recent trip to Japan

Steller's Sea Eagle
Rausu, Hokkaido. March 2025

#japanwildlife #hokkaidonature #rausu

Japanese Murrelet

Japanese Murrelet
Synthliboramphus wumizusume
Kadogawa, Miyazaki 270225

What a lovely little bird 😁

#japanwildlife #seabirds

Glaucous-winged Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull
Rausu, Hokkaido
020325

#gulls #japan

Japanese Giant Flying Squirrel.
Petaurista leucogenys.
Karuizawa 20.02.25
Only my second-ever sighting. I noticed a good-looking natural tree hole, gave it a scratch, and out popped this beauty!

Dood

Excellent

Common where found. (and no need for the W surely 🤪) My first was from the Weavers Way in August 1979, twitched in school holidays. 2 days before the Cley Marsh Sandpiper.

🦆

Little Egret

A very #bluesky plus a Little Egret
Norwich 12.01.25
#birds
#birding #ukbirding
#norwich

Sri Lanka Tree Nymph
Idea jasonia

The male doing a nuptial dance over a female. This went on for many minutes, but I missed the magic moment!
#entemology #butterflies #srilanka #srilankawildlife #idea

Red-backed Flameback
Endemic to Sri Lanka.
Negombo 30.11.24
#srilanka #srilankawildlife #birds #ornithology #woodpecker #endemic

Spot-bellied Eagle Owl
Siguriya, Sri Lanka 26.11.24
#birding #srilanka #birds #owls #srilankawildlife

Hedge-porn!