Hovering Kingfisher, Havering Blogger

Another day of showers and howling gales, it's January after all and an afternoon spell sitting in the Bank of Scotland Hide out of the weather. It was still freezing. The female Kingfisher spent a lot of time on and off hunting by hovering, perhaps aided by the wind or maybe getting blown off the perches!

Female hovering over one of the nearer pools fishing for shrimps and sticklebacks

A stickleback about to be beaten against the branch

One Little Egret today and briefly close

Crest raised

Snow Bunting - MIA

New post same old Iceland Gull, with another cameo from the single remaining Snow Bunting. There was a Peregrine and a Kestrel being chased off by the Peregrine when I arrived on the cliff path which could explain where the second Snow Bunting went. Let's hope it was sheltering from the strong wind. Also and worth scrolling down this post, an adult Black-headed Gull trying to tell a juvenile that it really is time to become independent and to stop pestering me for food.

Snow Bunting

Too close to get it all in the 300mm lens

Photos near dusk at the boatyard slipway, Arbroath Harbour

I had a number of these photos where the adult was really have a go at the youngsters head, eyes and neck

A lonely Eider drake in the outer harbour with the last rays of sunlight on the water