Isabelline Wheatear - Oenanthe Isabellina
(info from Birdguides)
Dazzling in the sunshine

Spectacular

35

Golden Masked ShoreLarks
Eromophila alpestris
Footling about on the salt marsh
at
Holkham Gap

watched for a good half an hour before they flew off over the trees.

Adult males, females and Ist winter


also

a
female
Scaup
Aythya marina

on the
Holkham Park Lake

Tag CloudIsabelline Wheatear

Sunrise over Overy Marshes

Pinkfeet in their hundreds flying out to feed.





Curlew - Numenius arquata



A woodcock flew out just at the bottom of the boardwalk.



Sandering, Brent , Turnstones, Cormorants and a variety of gulls out on the sand





and the bouys



An Isabelline Wheatear was picking about on the grass.



A dim and distant Isabelline Wheatear - Oenanthe isabellina




















and a very handsome
Northern Wheatear
Oenanthe Oenanthe
was very confiding
on the tide line on the way back.

(With grateful thanks to the photographer who found it)

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