A Bird Selection

I'll catch up with the pond (which is excelling itself) in a later post, but for now here is a small selection of birds spotted today. First up is a beautiful variant of a much maligned beauty, the pigeon. I saw it while scanning the cliffs for fulmars.

white pigeonWhite pigeon at Rottingdean

Another of the cliff inhabitants is the starling. These are more commonly seen gathering on the local rooftops or in trees, but occasionally perch in the nooks and crannies that pepper the cliff face.

starlingStarling

And of course the cliffs are home to the fulmars, which continue to dominate.

fulmarsFulmars

There were gulls as well…

juvenile herring gullsJuvenile herring gulls

black headed gullsBlack-headed gulls

But my prize spot of the day was a ringed plover which appeared as the tide was going out…

ringed ploverRinged plover

And a closer view…

ringed ploverRinged plover on the beach

All these and more in the March Birds album.

in case you were wondering, the trail cam is set up outside. I didn't get anything last night, which I think is due to the camera being set too high. It's much nearer the ground tonight and set to video mode working to the theory that if I let it shoot 30 second bursts the chance of a hit is greater. Here's hoping there will be proof positive in the morning.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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This Post Has 5 Comments

  1. gdare

    15 Mar 2009

    Nice photo of a starling 🙂 great details on feathers and nice contrast :up:

  2. annoushkiss

    15 Mar 2009

    All the pictures and birds are great! My favourites are the pigeon and the fulmar-excellent captures :up:

  3. Vulpes vulpes

    15 Mar 2009

    Great pigeon capture!:up:

  4. SittingFox

    15 Mar 2009

    That pigeon is beautiful :angel:

    Heh, I know how fussy trail cams can be about their angles. On my cam (now broken) there was a red laser beam that was activated in setup mode and let me know exactly where it was "looking". It was somewhat awkward to get right :faint:

  5. Flying Red Fox Blog

    15 Mar 2009

    Lovelly photos 😀 I had a great day at Arundel Wildfowl yesterday too, just sorting out my 500 or so photos lol…… practising with the zoom lens so some were blurry and otheres are sharp which is good.

    I think i saw a Buzzard today flying over my house, it was circling and swooping up and down and had a distinct pattern along its wings, i got some photos of it before it flew away, will post those another day. 🙂

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