Common seal

We took the Beans boat trip from Morston quay, it was something we had talked about doing over the years but just not around to doing. It was very informative, the crew members came up with lots of stats, the weather was great and there were lots of seals to see, this one was the best poser.

Convolvulus hawk moth

I had never seen one of these moths before, it was quite large, they migrate here from Southern Europe on the wind, I suspect that our 'Indian summer' helped this one here. It spent the day on a fence post at Titchwell.

Pintail (Northern)

This female in very pristine plumage was at Titchwell.

Common buzzard

A superb juvenile buzzard with pristine plumage, I am not sure if it was aware of me but it passed over me four times so I obviously did not concern it.

Rook

This adult rook was on the grass by the exit to the Grafham car park and posed in the sunshine for me. It may not be a beautiful bird but I think they have a lot of character and they are quite clever birds. A lot of them have now moved their rookeries into the towns so that the farmers cannot persecute them so easily.

More phalarope pictures

I had to put a couple more pictures of this superb little bird, I sat and waited on the dam and it gradually worked it's way past me completely undisturbed by my laying six feet away.

More from Grafham

I finally got a chance to go over my pictures again. the top picture was digiscoped, the second one I used my 300mm lens for