A Suffolk Week

 Having just returned from a few very hot days on the Suffolk coast it is time to sort out a few photos taken mostly at at Minsmere but also a few north to Southwold and south to Aldeburgh. The water levels on the Minsmere reserve were the lowest I've ever experienced,  resulting in very few waders but there were other rewards!

Starting at the groynes just north of Southwold a couple of  Purple Sandpipers showed up very briefly but after a couple of shots they soon moved off.

Several visits were made to Minsmere but few waders were present beyond a few sandpipers, lapwing and dunlin.

Common Sandpiper

Green Sandpiper

Lapwing

Dunlin

A very distant Great White Egret...Island Mere 

The only Bittern seen, flying over Island Mere.

The highlight were probably the Bearded Tits which on one morning came almost too close when using the 700mm lens

In the gorse and brambles on Minsmere beach the Dartford Warblers were quite confiding but fast moving and quickly disappeared into the undergrowth making photography challenging!

Other birds included....

Stonechat

Stonechat (juvenile)

Kestrel

Reed Bunting

Whitethroat

Chiffchaff

Barnacle Goose,probably from a local feral flock.

Water Pipit near the Konik field Minsmere.

The Koniks

Setting sun over the reed beds at Minsmere.