This juvenile Great spotted Woodpecker was difficult to get to grips with this morning on the nuts...
A delayed post from last night when we visited the old patch at Boulmer and took a walk around Seaton Point. The tide was just receding and a few waders were around - 16 Turnstones in summer finery, 2 Whimbrel (below, one with a Redshank) and good numbers of Oystercatchers and Redshanks. This moulting Yellow Wagtail looks odd. In the pic it look more like a Grey Wagtail, but its just in the process of losing body feathers. I watched it for a while with some Pieds, flying around and calling. On the village flash there was a nice breeding plumaged Icelandic Black tailed Godwit. They are quite easy to tell from Continental BTG's because they are smaller and more Bar tailed in shape. The red is darker and goes further down the belly too...
Back to tonight, Jane saw a Stoat on our garden wall hunting voles. It had disappeared by the time I got there. I hope it comes back...
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