Dippers have featured quite often in Letter from Norfolk posts over the last few months. However, I couldn’t resist including another shot taken on the Scottish Short Week Tour earlier this month.
This individual posed patiently as it collected insect after insect before returning to feed its young in the nest tucked away under a small bridge.
Marvellous how it managed to catch the next without losing the ones already collected.
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A real catch
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White Beacon
Winter will just not give on its grip this year. With temperatures much lower than the norm everything is much later. The Bluebells have not long been in flower, almost a month late.
Walking in the local woodland a sea of blue carpeted the floor. The odd shaft of light lit up the flowers in a luminescent blue that made you forget the cold wind. Among them a different form. The equivalent of the ‘black sheep’ in floral terms this white bluebell was a lone beacon of light under the dark canopy.
I have had several requests asking if I have other photographs of the Suffolk Red footed Falcon. So I have published some others at the end of the latest section on the ‘Wildcatch Photography’ site. I hope you like them.
We watched a wonderful display at the weekend. On a bright warm day among a group of around half a dozen hobbies hawking a reedbed was an interloper. A Red Footed Falcon from the east was among them. Not just a Red Footed Falcon but a stylish male. Dressed in a cloak of grey with bright highlights he took insects we could barely see within those red talons and transferred them to his bill in one smooth movement.
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Warbling over Scotland
On last week’s Scottish Birding Tour to Speyside and the Isles of Skye we heard the uplifting call of the Wood Warbler coming from high in the mature trees. It wasn’t long before we saw the silky white underparts capped with the lemon yellow that make this species so distinct. It took a little longer however to get a decent shot of him.
Such a great place Scotland … filled with some great birds. Next year’s four day tour is already on the website.
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Scratchy Residents
A Whitethroat and his intended have taken up residence aside a pair of Lesser Whitethroats at Falcon Cottage this spring. Each male takes it in turn to scratch out a tune from the top of the hawthorns.
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You can run but you can’t hide
Seen on one of our tours at the beginning of the month.
Heineken don’t do Pigeons … but if they did …
