Common Crane

Common Crane, Whipsnade Zoo, 24th September 2013 by Cliff Tack

Med Gull

Med Gull, Broom GP, 22nd September 2013

Spotted Crake

Thought I would have another ride over to Bedfordtoday to see the Spotted Crake, this afternoon it seemed a lot more mobile flying in between 2 spots on the boating lake plus a Mink was causing mayhem on the embankment very close to the spot,so got a feeling that the crakes departure will be imminent. Lovely bird and a real treat for Beds birders and those from further afield.

Crake Again

Sunday morning sunshine - eating snails

Yellow-legged Gull

Yellow-legged Gull, Broom GP, 21st September 2013

Spotted Crake video

Spotted Crake, Bedford Boating Lake, 16th September 2013

More Spotted Crake 16-09-2013 18.30 pm

More Spotted Crake showing really well this evening at the small lake at the top end of the Embankment in Bedford.
Quite elusive at times with difficult light conditions, but a lovely bird all the same. What a treat.

More Spotted Crake

Two more images of the Bedford Spotted Crake, 15th September 2013 by Mike Ilett.

Crake 2

Digiscoped image from Martin Palmer - nice one!

Bedford Crake

Digiscoping would have been the better option for this one. Boating Lake, Bedford Embankment.

DWE. 12th September.

 A walk around DWE on the 12th Sept, turned up a Spotted Flycatcher,the first I've seen here, and a obliging Chiffchaff.

Little Stints

Two Little Stints, Broom GP, 12th September 2013

Black-tailed Godwit

Juvenile Black-tailed Godwit, Broom GP, 9th September 2013

Pied Flycatcher

This superb Pied Fly was at The Lodge on 5th September and photographed by Kevin of Full Moon Images.  Some more images can be found on his Flickr page here.

Wryneck, Stagsden

Thanks to the Banthorpes for finding this record in a magazine called Ouse Valley Living (OVL) which included this photo of a Wryneck on a bird feeder on 1 September.  Amazing record.

Photo taken by Heather Hadden who said the bird arched its head back to see off the local Robin!