Peregrine hunting, 2 Great Egrets and 3 Little Stints

   
Photos and videos from a couple of hours at Maryton Ditch, and on a day when the sun shone intermittently. You might hear the wind noise on the videos though, even though the volume has been reduced by 97%. The Spotted Redshank was also there, but it flew off before there was any light, and videos were soft or out of focus.

Also a few from the Lurgies of very far away Little Stints, and a Dunlin with a cockle clamped on its foot, unfortunately my hand held video of it was too shaky to redeem in editing. 

Egrets flying in after being flushed      2 Great Egrets together      Great Egret, Heron and waders      

Peregrine juvenile hunting      Peregrine digital zoom      Little Stint Lurgies, distant      2 Little Stints, distant 

Knot, Maryton      Dunlin, Maryton     Pheasants, turned waders 

Goosander for comparison      Merganser for comparison      Greenshank

Great Egret and crouching Grey Heron

Great Egret downstream towards Maryton Bay, and distant

Great Egret upstream looking to the Lurgies

Little Egrets and one of seven Grey Herons

There were eight hen Pheasants walking along the mud at Maryton, soon to be shotgun fodder!