when your highlight from 3 days and 15 miles walking is a Lesser Whitethroat I think it says something about the state of birding or rather the total lack of birds - just cannot get inspired any more

juvenile Greenshank with Canon RF 200-800 and R62

not often you see the tail pattern on a juv LRP

when you walk into a juvenile Red Kite and it flies round you for 5 minutes - had to zoom out to 250mm at one point to fit it in

a classic 50:50 Starling Nutcracker

Interesting new from a friend in Toronto that American Painted Ladies have been particularly numerous this year :

Environment Agency claim they have to mow the Humber banks constantly to check for damage: the only damage caused is by the tractors mowing the banks: couldn’t make it up

Goxhill grues an area of intertidal grazing marsh: grazing ceased c1985 now succumbing to the ever advancing march of reed evident around the south shore of the Humber : found a roost of 10 SEO here in 70-71winter

fair few juvenile islandica godwits joining the mainly moulted adults now along the Humber

from below it would be easy to assume this is an adult Hobby but subtle features visible - new inner primaries and from above no doubts about it being a 2cy - little info on when 2cy birds migrate but with no young to feed would have thought early departure Jack Ashton-Booth

Reed Warbler gleaning aphids from reed leaves and taking a spider from its web

Sedge Warblers - make the most of them they will be gone soon

2S-type Pom from y'day eve pelagic. Photos Joe Pender

Now it’s autumn! Juvenile Pectoral sandpiper at Tacumshin, Wexford this evening. BirdGuides

Greenish warbler Saltfleet September 3rd - my 5th in Lincs but first since 2005 though that bird was in exactly the same place on September 11th

Not sure what is happening with me at the moment - on todays fog bound Lincs seawatch I managed to not photograph the exquisite juvenile Sabine's Gull but broke off to photograph other seagulls in the fog - Im sure I will get over it

fog, mist, drizzle, wind but this Arctic was at least quite close in at 800mm Lincsbirding

Fea’s type petrels seem to get reported so surely there should also be Cory’s type Shearwaters not just Cory’s : taxonomists can’t have it both ways? Not that I see either 😩