Saturday 1 December 2012

Welcome to Winter!

This morning I revisited St. Mary's after a rush down after sixth form yesterday to catch up with my second black redstart for patch, only my 4th in Britain, and it was a very good decision! Met up with Alan Curry in the south bay around half 8 and immediately it put in an appearance, spending most of it's time on the cliff and seaweed darting backwards and forwards. After a while, I went off and left Alan to photograph it and checked out the rest of the patch, with very little around apart from the 'resident' great-spotted woodpecker. 

So after a while, I decided to go back to see the redstart again and this time, it showed like a dream. I found by just sitting a rock and allowing the bird to get used to me, it was very tame indeed, coming within 5 feet at one point, and posing for me in the morning sun. Morning well spent!


What a stunner!


Also spent some time photographing these guys on the rocks...
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4 comments:

  1. Killy Birder1 December 2012 at 15:35

    B Redstart certainly is a stunner, as are the photographs of it Jack!

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  2. Brian R3 December 2012 at 00:15

    That second BR image is a belter Jack.

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  3. Jack B4 December 2012 at 19:35

    Thanks for the comments guys, hopefully going for another visit at the weekend!

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  4. Northumbrian Birding5 December 2012 at 14:49

    Yes that near flight shot is fantastic I was there about 2 minutes after it was found ,but mine are very poor in comparison .
    Brian

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