Isles of Scilly 11th - 15th May

A few pics from our family holiday to the Isles of Scilly, birding highlights being twitching a Common Crane, Night Heron, Woodchat Shrike and Little Bittern, plus Paula finding the Squacco Heron.

Common Crane

Night Heron

Woodchat Shrike

Squacco Heron

St Mary's

Tresco Abbey from St Mary's

St Martins

St Mary's away from the town

Porthhellick

Birding Extramadura March 27th - 1st April 2015

Highlights from our 5 days of Birding in Extramadura mainly around Saucedilla, Trujillo and Monfrague national park.

Wetlands around Saucedilla

Storks nesting in Trujillo

Monfrague Vultures

Monfrague National Park

Tourists !!

Booted Eagle

A few Cattle Egrets

Great Bustards

Great Bustard

Hoopoe

Spanish Imperial Eagle (on nest)

Azure Winged Magpie

B

Black Vulture

Blue Rockthrush

Crag Martin

Egyption Vulture

Crested Lark

Great Bustard

Griffon Vulture

Griffon Vulture

Hawfinch

Lesser kestrel

Purple Swamphen

Rock Bunting

Scarce Swallowtail

Serin

Steppe Grey Shrike

Black Kite

Corn Bunting

Sub-alpine Warbler

Sub-alpine Warbler

Thekla Lark



Woodchat Shrike

White Stork



White Stork

Black-winged Kite

West Sussex Commons Sunday 1st February 2015

A cold and breezy day starting at Burton Mill Pond with only the occasional Tit flock with Goldcrests and possible Firecrest.

Goldcrest

 

After doing the circuit back at the Mill both Treecreeper and a Grey Wagtail were on show

 

Treecreeper

Grey Wagtail

From here we relocated to Iping Common which was more or less birdless apart from our target of the Great Grey Shrike

Great Grey Shrike

Great Grey Shrike

A visit to Ambersham Common turned up 3 Bullfinches and little else so we called it a day.

I decided to call in at Bexhill to try and find the Snowbunting and did so in 10 minutes, pics are very poor due to the light fading

Snow Bunting