More Red-backed Shrike photos

More Red-backed Shrike photos - these are from Jim Gurney. Biggleswade Common, 31st August 2010.

Red Backed Shrike.

More images on my Blog. http://backinbirdland.blogspot.com

MVCP Access Track

Scaup(ish...?) duck, Whinchat & Snipe all near the MVCP access track this afternoon. Photographs by Martin Green.

Red-backed Shrike

Well found Steve !

A few more images can be found here

Red-backed Shrike

Red-backed Shrike, Biggleswade Common, 28th August 2010. Nice find by Steve Heath. Another shot can be found here.

Red-backed Shrike - Biggleswade Common

A great find by Steve Heath and I think the first twitchable one since the one about half a mile further north in 1996. Looks like an adult female .

Willington.

Willow Warblers feeding all over the place, at least 5 Green Sandpipers and a Greenshank.

Hybrid Goose

Hybrid Goose sp, Broom GP, 24th August 2010.

Wood Sand

Wood Sandpiper, Broom GP, 23rd August 2010.

Cuckoo at Willington

Taken from the river close to the Lock at Willington. Not sure if this is a female or a first year bird. Either way, a pleasant surprise this late in the season.

Black-necked Grebes

Black-necked Grebes, Harrold & Odell CP, 15th August 2010. Not a bad reward for doing Richard Bashfords WeBS count for him!

Wheatear

Wheatear, Rookery, 14th August 2010.

Blackwit and Garganey

Black-tailed Godwit, Garganey, and Green Sandpiper, Derek Whites Eggs pit, 13th August 2010.

Possible Baltic Gull

Possible Baltic Gull/probable intermedius Lesser Black-backed Gull, Broom GP, 11th August 2010. More on this bird here.

Just for a laugh...

A couple of record shots (taken with the 200mm lens I use for butterflies) of the two Marsh Harriers on the deck together in Rookery.....and one of the birds in flight, the darker one, a very dark, even chocolate brown and with immaculate tail and flight feathers, so presumably a juvenile female (as it was the same size as the other bird which had faded plumage and displaced tail feathers, so presumably an adult female)

Wheatear

This young bird was at Grovebury this afternoon

Broom roost

Broom GP gull roost, 5th August 2010. Around 2000 birds were there this evening.