mvecht`s fifth BY

[mvecht]

Last year was very quiet.

With a new camera and hopefully some travelling the aim is to make this a bigger year

Unless otherwise noted the pictures were taken with a Canon EOS R7 and a Tanron 150-600mm G2.

A trip to the local lakes at the Sugarfactories gave a lot of birds but not so many species.

IOM 1 Tufted Duck

With a bad hairday

 

There were lots of them

 

 

A Peregrine Falcon gave them a good scare

 

 

 

I did manage to single one of them out.

 

[mvecht]

IOM #2 Black-headed Gull in winter plumage

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IOM #3  Common Pochard

with a oucple of Tufted Ducks

 

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IOM #4 Eurasian Wigeon

 

[TonyQ]

Well done on beginning the Big Year foe 2023.

The number of Tufted Ducks in that picture is amazing!

[PeterHG]

Off to a good start of the new year with the new camera! The number of Tufted Ducks in your photo is just amazing!

[Galana]

Off to a good start. as others, that is one heck of a  lot of Tufts.

[BRACQUENE]

Great start and the ducks seem to be popular at the start of the year  

[xelas]

Wow, a new gear for a new year! We will be seeing a lot of great photos in 2023, you have started with a bang!

[Zim Girl]

Great start, also very impressed with the huge number of tufted ducks.

[Peter Connan]

R7 seems quite popular in the Big Year! Certainly giving you some great results already.

[mvecht]

For the first time in a while we had some decent weather this morning and went to the Northwestern part of the Island.

Lots of Geese.

IOM #5 Greylag Goose

 

 

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IOM #6 Barnacle Goose

 

[mvecht]

The Geese attract a lot of Eagles.

We saw 6-8 individual Eagles and at the same time another birder had 8 other Eagles just a few miles away,

IOM #7 White-tailed Sea Eagle.

 

 

 

 

 

[BRACQUENE]

Great pictures in flight ! No descent weather here ; it’s raining cats and dogs and I’m stuck at home for the rest of the day 

[TonyQ]

Beautiful photo of the Barnacle Geese, and an amazing sighting of the Eagles!

[Galana]

Good photos of flying Geese and excellent Eagles too.

Enviable weather too.

[mvecht]

Extremely windy today but we went back to the same place as yesterday.

Again we had 6-8 Eagles.

We went to a birdhide app 3 miles away overlooking a flooded meadow.

IOM #8 Pintail

 

The Eagles made a few attempts at the Pochard`s

 

 

but decided to take a rest in the trees

[PeterHG]

Great eagle sequence!

[Kitsafari]

On 1/6/2023 at 11:06 PM, mvecht said:

 

 

 

There were lots of them

 

 

A Peregrine Falcon gave them a good scare

 

 

 

 

 

Wowowow!! i would be jumping with joy at that sight!

[mvecht]

@Kitsafarilast count from a reliable birder had the total at 13.000 in that area!

[michael-ibk]

Wow, love the Eagle series. EIght of them!

[mvecht]

Some more pictures from the North Western part of the Island.

IOM #9 female Greater Scaup (top of the picture)

 

[mvecht]

IOM #10 Goosander

Quite a few of them but also quite shy.

[mvecht]

IOM #11 Common Kestrel posing nicely