A rare bird and a rare dragon

Without doubt one of my own personal highlights of the recent butterfly tour to Cumbria was finding several White Faced Darter Dragonflies. One of our rarest insects it sports a very smart livery indeed. One in particular was lying low out of the wind warming itself on the boardwalk.

Perhaps the only thing that could have ousted it from the top spot was a bird sat on a pub sign just West of the Welland as we ventured back into Norfolk. As bold as brass, sat at the roadside sporting distinctive red feet was the dark slate form of a male Red footed Falcon. Seeing a good bird at 60mph is never satisfying so I even negotiated the traffic to turn around and go back for a better look … only to find it had moved on.

A Falcon with a taste for snazy footwear … revisited.

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.

A Falcon with a taste for snazy footwear

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.