Goldcrest April 2017

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And a lovely Goldcrest...
West Sussex April 2017
Nikon D300S 500mm

Cuckoo - Surrey April 2017

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Out with the camera - West Surrey and a very confiding cuckoo!

Red-backed shrike Tidemills East Sussex September 2016

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Red-backed shrike Tidemills East Sussex September 2016

The male is unmistakable with a bluish-grey head, black mask, bright chestnut back and thick hooked black bill. Shrikes like to perch prominently on the tops of bushes, fence posts and telephone wires, where they have a good view of potential prey. Items caught are then taken to a larder where they are impaled on a thorn or wedged in a fork. Its dramatic decline to virtual extinction as a UK breeding species make this a Red List bird.

AND A WHEATEAR!

Red-backed shrike Tidemills East Sussex September 2016

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Red-backed shrike Tidemills East Sussex September 2016

The male is unmistakable with a bluish-grey head, black mask, bright chestnut back and thick hooked black bill. Shrikes like to perch prominently on the tops of bushes, fence posts and telephone wires, where they have a good view of potential prey. Items caught are then taken to a larder where they are impaled on a thorn or wedged in a fork. Its dramatic decline to virtual extinction as a UK breeding species make this a Red List bird.

AND A WHEATEAR!

Ring Ouzel (Turdus torquatus) October 2016

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Quite a few hours over several days...  October 2016

Wildlife West Sussex Spring - Summer 2016

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A few photos from this summer... from West Sussex

King George V Coronation 1911

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Something different... from the year my father was born...
Coronation of King George V on 22nd June 1911