Herring Gull on post

Norwich Waxwings revisited

 A few more Waxwing pics that I had forgotten to upload...

Horsey Mill

More Norfolk Landscapes here - thislaughinggull/norfolk-landscape

Herring Gull eating starfish

Dogs on Happisburgh beach

Mares tails

Horsey Mill wishing well

Herring Gull in flight, first winter

Skein

Herring Gull flight

Eyjafjallajökull sunset 2010

Turnstones

A couple of Turnstones from today.

Mousehold

Trying to catch what is left of the autumn colour last weekend, might put some more of these up later on.

Happisburgh

Boy on a beach

Bit of fun with the machine set to soft focus...

A Carrion crow blinks

Geekwatch. Nictating membrane.

Waxwings, Cambridge Street

York St, Rupert St, Cambridge St Norwich

Halloween

Ship. Fog.

Norwich graffiti

Birdscape - Mute Swan

We strike tonight

Sunset and gulls

Cley beach installation ii

Triskaidekaphobia

Cley beach installation

Holly Blue egg laying

The ivy in the back garden is due to get chopped before it takes over.  Now that this little critter spend the afternoon doing this...

....it looks like it will be spring before it is touched!

Bacton Door

Alpine Swift, Beeston Bump

As twitches go, this was pretty straightforward!

Black headed Gull

Volcucella zonaria?

Eyelid colour in Long-tailed Tit

The local tit flock passed through the garden yesterday evening, so I tried to get a few shots off as they had bathed and looked reasonably comfortable (two or three even dozed off).  When reviewing, I noticed that there were differences in eyelid colour.  I thought that this might be an age / plumage variation but it seems that the colour variation is down to their mood, this conclusion has been reached by some scientists who summarised it like this...

Long-tailed Tits captured in mist-nets showed variations of eye-lid colour from pale yellow to deep red. Individual changes occurred within a few minutes, and were sufficient to account for a changing frequency of colour categories in the population during winter. Birds with redder eyelids..were heavier, and were more likely to make distress calls when handled. These results suggest that eye-lid colour reflects a bird's internal state or 'mood'.

Have a look for yourself.   The link for the paper is at the bottom of the post.

Red Eyelid



Yellow eyelid

 Here is the research...

steamboat with gulls

Scroby

Ever seen a gulls tongue?

fishermen and gulls

happisburgh lighthouse