Ferry Meadows and OBP

No, not Olive-backed Pipit, Orton Brick Pit.


I spent a few hours wandering around Ferry Meadows (see below) before going to OBP where I met Kevin Du Rose. True to his birdfinding form, the above Black-necked Grebe is what we saw there.


Common Gull


Robin


Bad pic of a drake Shoveler

photos taken with Nikon Coolpix 995 + Leica Apo Televid 62 with 16x eyepiece

Camargue & Alpilles: Day Five

Buzzard (taken with scope balanced precariously on car door on top of hat) - 08:01


Black-necked Grebe, Etang de Vaccares - 09:20


Greater Flamingo, Etang de Vaccares - 09:43


Graham Catley (l) and David Jenkins (r) map-reading, Etang de Vaccares - 13:18*


Kevin Du Rose scanning for gulls, probably - 13:19*


Little Egret, Saintes Maries de la Mer - 14:03


Little Egret, Saintes Maries de la Mer - 14:05


Yellow-legged Gull, Sainte Maries de la Mer - 14:06


Yellow-legged Gulls, Saintes Maries de la Mer - 14:09


Little Egret, Saintes Maries de la Mer - 14:13


Little Egret, Saintes Maries de la Mer - 14:14


Greater Flamingo, Saintes Maries de la Mer - 14:32


Greater Flamingo, Saintes Maries de la Mer - 14:36


Greater Flamingo, Saintes Maries de la Mer - 14:49




Little Egret, Saintes Maries de la Mer - 14:39




Little Egret, Saintes Maries de la Mer - 14:46

photos taken with Nikon Coolpix 995 + Leica Apo Televid 62 with 16x eyepiece (* except where handheld)

Camargue & Alpilles: Day Four

Wallcreeper, Les Baux - 08:31


Wallcreeper, Les Baux - 09:48


Wallcreeper, Les Baux - 09:51


Wallcreeper, Les Baux - 10:18


Wallcreeper, Les Baux - 10:26


Photographing Richard's Pipits - Kevin Du Rose (in car, in foreground) and Graham Catley (in field, in howling gale), Mas de Chauvet - 13:26*

photos taken with Nikon Coolpix 995 + Leica Apo Televid 62 with 16x eyepiece (* except where handheld)

Camargue & Alpilles: Day Three

Black-necked Grebe, Etang des Vaccares - 09:01




Great White Egret, La Capeliere - 11:00


Night Heron roost, River Rhone - 16:20


Night Heron roost, River Rhone - 16:21

photos taken with Nikon Coolpix 995 + Leica Apo Televid 62 with 16x eyepiece

Camargue & Alpilles: Day Two

Looking for Eagle Owl, Le Destet - 09:35*


View from La Caume - 10:59*


Alpine Accentor, Les Baux - 14:04


Alpine Accentor, Les Baux - 14:22


Alpine Accentor, Les Baux - 14:23


Alpine Accentor, Les Baux - 15:04


Alpine Accentor, Les Baux - 15:09


Les Baux - 15:41*


Les Baux - 16:06*


Wallcreeper, Les Baux - 16:12


Wallcreeper, Les Baux - 16:18


Graham Catley, Les Baux - 16:42*


Graham Catley, Les Baux - 16:46*

photos taken with Nikon Coolpix 995 + Leica Apo Televid 62 with 16x eyepiece (* except where handheld)

Camargue & Alpilles: Day One

Aythya flock, Etang de Vaccares - 08:05


Greater Flamingo, Etang de Vaccares - 08:11


Greater Flamingo, Etang de Vaccares - 08:11


Black-necked Grebe, Etang de Vaccares - 09:23


Black-necked Grebe, Etang de Vaccares - 09:23


Wild Boar, La Capeliere - 10:36


Digiscopers, Villeneuve - 11:14*


Black-necked Grebe, Etang de Vaccares - 09:23


Coypu, La Capeliere - 14:28*


Coypu, La Capeliere - 14:30*


Spotted Crake, Grand Romieu - 15:16


Spotted Crake, Grand Romieu - 15:19


Greater Spotted Eagle, near Villeneuve - 17:30

photos taken with Nikon Coolpix 995 + Leica Apo Televid 62 with 16x eyepiece (*except where handheld)