Showing posts with label Shoveler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shoveler. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 October 2011

Beautiful Birds (30): RSPB Reserve Minsmere, Suffolk, UK

A Teal (not a Shoveler) ... shovelling!
David lining up the camera for a waterfowl fly-past

You can see the Mismere RSPB Reserve on the left and the North Sea on the right ... pretty chilly, too!

And here they come!

A Little Egret surrounded by a group of Teal, with their heads below the surface.
Is this a Bar-Tailed Godwit? No, I gather it's a Black-Tailed one.
We drove past the RSPB Deer Rut station ... into the Dunwich sunset.
Do take a look at David's Orwell View blog for more photos ... You may also like to see the RSPB Daily (e-bulletin), featuring the Little Egret we saw at Minsmere.

Friday, 4 March 2011

Beautiful Birds (18): WWT Llanelli

Shelduck ...
... on the look-out.
Little Egret: grooming time!
The majestic Mute Swan
A Tufted Duck ...
... and a Shoveler.
Cormorant ... off-duty!