Lytham St Anne's

On Saturday my Dad and I travelled up north to Lytham St Anne's for the adult Ross's Gull that had been seen there the day before. This bird is another one that has eluded us for a few years so was hoping to connect with it and by early morning there was no sign so we decided to head to Marshside RSPB where we saw plenty of avocets, Blackwits and the usual stuff and then after an hour or so we decided to head back to Fairhaven Lake in hope that it would turn up and as we arrived bleep bleep Ross's Gull so we quickly drove a mile down th road to see it sat on the beach sheltering from the wind, we waited another hour or so and had stunning views of this adult gull down to 30ft and some good photo's was taken. We left at around half 4 arriving home shortly after half 8.






Ross's Gull taken at Lytham St Anne's, Lancs



Adult Ross's Gull taken at Lytham St Anne's, Lancs

Little Crake, Exminster Marshes

Today my dad and I travelled to Exminster Marshes RSPB, Devon for the superb male Little Crake which had been showing down to 20ft but we had heard that this bird was extremely difficult to photograph despite its close proximity.


We arrived on site at around half 11 to find the bird had just flown to ourside of the reeds which was unviewable however after 10 or so minutes the bird flew back across the ditch and continued to show well but the problem now was the reeds and the wind, just as u got the bird in focus a reed came into view and then it unfocused and it kept doing this repeatedly so only a few record shots were managed. We left at 3:00pm after it had disappeared 4 about 3 hrs.






record shot of the Male Little Crake at Exminster Marshes Devon.

Dungeness RSPB

News broke at around half 9 of a Dark Eyed Junco at Dungeness so straight away my Dad and I was on our way without any hesitation as we missed the last bird (in Norfolk due to hesitation) we arrived on site at about 3 hrs later due to a poor journey but after a few minutes I had my first view of this little cracker which was a 1w bird.

We waited another good 1hr so that my dad could see the bird and eventually the bird sat in a bush for about 30 minutes for all to see however my pics of this bird was pretty poor as we had limited time and it wasn't as obliging as the pager 1st suggested.

Poor record shot of the 1st winter Dark Eyed Junco taken at

Dungeness!