Winter waders

In the absence of spring migrants locally, I'm birding vicariously on the internet this week. My Bird Watching colleague Mike Weedon was out on the Nene Washes on Tuesday night, and posted some interesting photos.

In the first, he snapped a Spotted Redshank in flight - the distinctive but very subtly drooped tip to the bill is visible.

In this pic, you can have fun trying to pick out the lone Lapwing among a flock of Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits - it is there, honestly.

A pictorial interlude

A couple of people mentioned they liked that Red Kite pic on the last post, so here's a few more pics from the bloke who took it, colleague Mike Weedon's blog, Weedon's World of Nature.

First, a mist-net of spiders' webs thrown over the fenland landscape...


...next, a splendidly fiery-eyed Black-necked Grebe at Orton Brick Pit, Peterborough...


...and finally, a piratical Kestrel attempting to relieve a Barn Owl of his supper up on Deeping High Bank.