Birds Photographed in the UK in 2009
(January - May)

Jonathan Wasse

London, UK

Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
Rainham Marshes RSPB, London, Feb. 2009.

Two 1st winters present on the Target Pools late one Saturday afternoon (both birds shown here).

Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
Rainham Marshes RSPB, London, Mar. 2009.

Another individual present at Rainham in late March 2009.

Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta
Rainham, London, Mar. 2009.

One of 2 or 3 seen at the Stone Barges by the Thames west of Rainham Marshes RSPB.

Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor
A57/Strines junction, Derbys., April 2009.

A passage bird showing well on the moorland edge.

Iceland Gull and Glaucous Gull Larus glaucoides and Larus hyperboreus
Sandbach Flashes, Cheshire, April 2009.

A 1st winter/summer Iceland Gull (top two) and a similarly aged Glaucous Gull (bottom two) showed well.

American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
Breydon Water, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, April 2009.

An intersting "Yankee Goldy" with bright golden spangled upperparts.

White Wagtail Motacilla alba alba
Old Moor RSPB, Barnsley, South Yorks., April 2009.

One with several "Pieds" on the Wader Scrape.

Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis
Portland, Dorset, May 2009.

A cracking bird showed well for several days doing a circuit of the gardens.

Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
Radipole Lake RSPB, Weymouth, Dorset, May 2009.

Three red exclamation marks, or the pastic foot of doom?

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