tdgraves 8th big year 2021

[shazdwn]

Wow owls in the garden, awesome 🦉

[Tdgraves]

Thanks @Galana and @shazdwn

 

@Dave Williams there was one in the garden where we stayed in jersey, but since we have been home, we have heard nothing. This could either mean that they have fledged and there is no point in begging absent parents or that they have moved on…

[Tdgraves]

We had a few days in Jersey in July. It felt like a real holiday - we went on a plane, the weather was fabulous, the food amazing and it was wall to wall beaches. The birding however, not so much .....

 

St Saviour, Jersey, 14/7/21

 

Canon 5D mark IV, 100-400 mark II, ISO 500, f7.1, 1/2500

 

00000236a by tdgraves, on Flickr

 

95) Great black-backed gull

Edited August 17, 2021 by Tdgraves
typo

[Tdgraves]

La Roque, Jersey, 15/7/21

 

Canon 7D mark II, 100-400 mark II, ISO 320, f7.1, 1/1000, EV +2/3

 

00000239a by tdgraves, on Flickr

 

96) Herring gull

Edited August 17, 2021 by Tdgraves
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[Tdgraves]

Plemont point, Jersey, 15/7/21

 

Canon 5D mark IV, 100-400 mark II, ISO 320, f7.1, 1/1600, EV +2/3

 

00000238a by tdgraves, on Flickr

 

97) Common linnet

[Tdgraves]

I got excited thinking that I had found a new bird, but realised later that it was black-headed, not Mediterranean 

 

00000241a by tdgraves, on Flickr 

 

and an obliging duplicate from the Botanical Gardens

 

00000235a by tdgraves, on Flickr

 

and that was that!

Edited August 17, 2021 by Tdgraves
better photo

[Dave Williams]

Getting to the ton slowly but surely!

I liked Jersey, haven't been in 40 years though so I wonder what it's like nowadays! One thing is certain, the Jersey Royal new potatoes ain't what the used to be since they tried exploiting the market and forcing two crops a year.

Edited August 17, 2021 by Dave Williams

[Tdgraves]

@Dave WilliamsIt is extremely smalI and the roads are very narrow, which I imagine are much busier now than 40 years ago. I refused to pay £3.50 for a kilo of spuds, but everything we ate out was amazing….

[elefromoz]

On 8/17/2021 at 11:05 PM, Tdgraves said:

we went on a plane, the weather was fabulous, the food amazing and it was wall to wall beaches. The birding however, not so much .....

ha ha, birders are hard to please.

What a memorable Owl experience, hope they like your place and come back next time.

 

[Tdgraves]

I had forgotten this guy with our daily serenade back in June

 

My garden, Cambridgeshire, 5/6/21

 

Canon 7D mark II, 100-400 mark II, ISO 800, f5.6, 1/1600

 

00000250a by tdgraves, on Flickr

 

98) Song thrush

Edited September 16, 2021 by Tdgraves
typo

[Tdgraves]

And after seeing these frequently at lots of different sites last year, this was actually my first 2021 sighting!

 

Berry Fen, Cambridgeshire, 24/8/21

 

Canon 7D mark II, 100-400 mark II, ISO 800, f7.1, 1/2500

 

00000245a by tdgraves, on Flickr

 

Canon 7D mark II, 100-400 mark II, ISO 1250, f7.1, 1/6000

 

00000246a by tdgraves, on Flickr

 

99) Great white egret

[Tdgraves]

and his little cousin

 

00000249a by tdgraves, on Flickr

 

and some of the lovely flowers

 

00000243a by tdgraves, on Flickr

[Tdgraves]

Finally got out for a walk again today

 

Grafham water, Cambridgeshire, 16/9/21

 

Canon 5D mark IV, 100-400 mark II, ISO 800, f7.1, 1/2000

 

7T4A0889a by tdgraves, on Flickr

 

100) Yellow-legged gull

[Galana]

Congratulations on the big 100. Well done.

Have you counted the wagtail on the right too?

[Zim Girl]

Well done on reaching 100!

[xelas]

Congrats on #100!

[Soukous]

Oops, sorry I didn't notice that this was your 100th. Congratulations. For some reason I thought you were way past that milestone. 

[Tdgraves]

Thanks @xelas and @Zim Girl

@Galana I think that the photobombing wagtail appears in the spring migration 

 

1 hour ago, Soukous said:

Oops, sorry I didn't notice that this was your 100th. Congratulations. For some reason I thought you were way past that milestone. 

Because I usually would be, sigh….

[TonyQ]

Well done on reaching 100!

[PeterHG]

Congrats on reaching #100! Yellow-legged Gull would be quite a find in the Netherlands, although sightings are more frequent than they used to be. Is that the same for where you live?

[Kalaharikind]

Congrats on your 100!

 

And thank you for your booming bittern: what an amazing voice!  

[Tdgraves]

16 hours ago, PeterHG said:

Congrats on reaching #100! Yellow-legged Gull would be quite a find in the Netherlands, although sightings are more frequent than they used to be. Is that the same for where you live?

I think in some parts of the uk, but I seem to get one each year for the BY. They are certainly not the most common gulls around here (black headed and black backed)

[Kitsafari]

Congrats on the 100th!

[mvecht]

congrats on the 100th!

[Peter Connan]

Congratulations! Well done.