Cromer
Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo
Turnstone - Arenaria interpres.
Routing (flicking, bulldozing and pecking)
through the seaweed on the beach for small
crustaceans,gastropod molluscs and
in one of the pictures the odd fly.
Adults returning from - hopefully
a successful breeding season.
The last remnants of their summer plumage
showing dusky orange red in the sunlight.
Young ones less brilliant with small
dusky buff fringes on lower wing feathers.
The big questions
Where did they breed?
and
Where to now?
Starling (Sternus vulgaris)
An adult and three juveniles.
Docking
Starling (Sternus vulgaris)
Thousand of Pink-footed Geese in the fields in the morning.
Docking
In looking for everything else that was important to look for today these Starlings ( Sterna vulgaris )were quite spectacular.
Also
Red Breasted Goose
Todd's Canada Goose
Taiga Bean Geese
WhiteFronted Goose
and
thousands
of
Pinkfeet
Just amazing.
Starlings on the wire.
(Sterna vulgaris)