Everything is Permuted

"I can't see her either"

"Boys, boys... they'll never find me here"

"Come on then, I'll race you to the bottom"

"Woah! Where did that come from!"

Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

I'll catch up with the pond (which is excelling itself) in a later post, but for now here is a small selection of birds spotted today. First up is a beautiful variant of a much maligned beauty, the pigeon. I saw it while scanning the cliffs for fulmars.

White pigeon at Rottingdean

Another of the cliff inhabitants is the starling. These are more commonly seen gathering on the local rooftops or in trees, but occasionally perch in the nooks and crannies that pepper the cliff face.

Starling

And of course the cliffs are home to the fulmars, which continue to dominate.

Fulmars

There were gulls as well...

Juvenile herring gulls

Black-headed gulls

But my prize spot of the day was a ringed plover which appeared as the tide was going out...

Ringed plover

And a closer view...

Ringed plover on the beach

All these and more in the March Birds album.

in case you were wondering, the trail cam is set up outside. I didn't get anything last night, which I think is due to the camera being set too high. It's much nearer the ground tonight and set to video mode working to the theory that if I let it shoot 30 second bursts the chance of a hit is greater. Here's hoping there will be proof positive in the morning.

Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

I was out early today, and had a couple of hours to kill while waiting for my car to be serviced. The early rain eventually gave way to some warm sunshine. During my wanderings on the outskirts of Uckfield I came across a small flock of pigeons, one of which was a beautiful piebald.

Normal feral pigeon and the piebald





Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.