Showing posts with label Shell duck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shell duck. Show all posts

Monday, 28 January 2019

Ryan's field yesterday




It was a wet and windy morning at Ryan's field yesterday but the local bird life still put on a bit of a show starting with this female Kingfisher patiently waiting for fish to rise.

She was followed by the Black-headed Gull below that was having some trouble getting its prey:  a very lively Ell down the hatch,

A pair of Black-tailed Godwit and Shell Duck were feeding at a more leisurely pace while a lone Red shank and an Oystercatcher seemed to be having trouble finding any




















Thursday, 8 March 2018

Ryans Field Part 2



My visit to Ryans Field pm yesterday was time well spent with good shows from the Avorcet shown in yesterdays blog ,  A fine male Pintail was also showing well along with more regular local birds such as the Grey Heron, Curlew, Black headed Gull, kingfisher, Black tailed Godwit, Shell Duck, Lapwings and Redshank that are all posted either above or below