Garth Peacock
West Norfolk

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Friday 4th October - North Norfolk

Monday 7th October 2024

Tanzania Day 8 - The Serengeti

Saturday 5th October 2024

Two trips out with little to show.

Wednesday 25th September 2024

Tanzania Day 7 - The Serengeti

Monday 23rd September 2024

Abberton Reservoir - again

Thursday 19th September 2024

Abberton Essex

Wednesday 11th September 2024

A morning at Grafham Water

Thursday 29th August 2024

After holiday blues

Thursday 22nd August 2024

Trying out a new lens

Monday 5th August 2024

Tanzania Day 5 - Ngorogoro Crater

Saturday 27th July 2024

Kevin Robson's Tawny Owl hide

Thursday 25th July 2024

Local stuff

Saturday 20th July 2024

More local stuff

Saturday 29th June 2024

Catching up with a local rarity

Friday 14th June 2024

Tanzania - Day 1 - Arusha

Monday 13th May 2024

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Wednesday 19th September 2012

The main reason for this trip was for the Barred Warbler at Holme Dunes NWT. It had been showing there for over a week and this rarity only tends to stay for a couple of days at most and no info from Birdguides on the way so things did not look good.

There were about a dozen twitchers there when I arrived and it had been seen earlier but absent for the first hour. Then it decided to appear low down in the elderberry bush - not at all photographable and this continued for another hour or so. Now I was beginning to understand why there have been very few images of this bird.

Then it appeared from the back of some elderberries to feed giving some head shot possibilities

After a four hour wait, it appeared out in the open for the first time for just a few seconds

Satisfied with that, I moved on to Thornham, a site that I really like having got some good images over the last few years.

A Curlew was showing well with  a nice background. This shot has only a small crop.

Then a juvenile Black-tailed Godwit

Then on to Titchwell for a late afternoon session in the hide. Weather excellent with calm sunny conditions and Dunlin and Ruff close in to the hide.

More images in the Recent Additions section of this website.