Tuesday 22 December 2020

Where have I been

 

Socially distant waiting for a Hoopoe in Norfolk

Dungeness

Dungeness

North Pools at Wells in Norfolk

Welbeck in Nottinghamshire

The Peak District Derbyshire

The long walk to Back Tor

Walberswick in search of Alaskan Yellow Wagtail

The Scillonian viewed from Porthgwarra

Halstow Marsh

Thetford

Twitching a Radde's Warbler in Suffolk

Dipping a Sooty Tern at Sizewell

Dipping a Booted Warbler in the rain at Sizewell



Watching SEO's  at the Dungeness firing ranges

The big twitch at Stiffkey for the Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin 

Watching an Iceland Gull where the Thames meets the Roding

Stiffkey Nortfolk

Stiffkey from the car park

The river of my childhood...The Roding

The end of a double rainbow at Gunpowder Park

Bawdsey

Portland

Porthgwarra

Porthgwarra view

Lockdown at Lee Valley CP

Nosterfield NNR Yorkshire

Minsmere in Suffolk

Masked Shrike twitch in Kent

Man Sands in Devon

Long Pits at Dungeness

Lockwood Reservoir Walthamstow 


This sums up 2020

The view of London from King George V reservoir

Keyhaven lagoons

Dungeness and an Ibis flies over ARC with the power station behind

Just another dunge heap

Holme NOA

Halstow

Gunpowder Park Lee Valley CP

Dunwich Pools and a socially distanced twitch

The garden where I've spent quite a chunk of 2020

Fen Drayton

Eccles in search of Desert Wheatear

Dickleburgh (A new place for me in 2020)

A rare twitch with Dad (Marsh Warbler)

Alton Water

Brown Shrike in the scope

Local birding 

Broadsands in Devon

Brancaster Staithe in Norfolk

a birder about to unknowingly flush a Red-flanked Bluetail

Bawdsey

Back Tor in the Peak District

ARC at Dungeness

Acres Down

Abberton


I think I made the best of a horrible year 


2 comments:

  1. Nice selection there Brian, disappointed not to see any pics of Wanstead ;-)

    Have good Xmas and New Year 2021!

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  2. Thanks Tony. Hope you have a good one too and I did consider the face down shot in the goose poo at Wanstead but the Hoopoe on the Dunge heap won by a nose :) (Do love my little trips to Wanstead tho)

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