Tuesday 3 July 2012

Corn Bunting

On Sunday we went to Buckton Cliffs to see the Alpine Swift flying above the trig point a great bird to see. The walk from Bemprton RSPB was a little further than anticipated but about two thirds of the way I head the 'jangling keys' sound of a Corn Bunting and fortunately it was on a concrete fence post and allowed me to approach although I was shooting into the light.

The Corn Bunting has Red Status due to its dramatic population decline. It is our largest bunting a dull brown bird, paler underneath and streaky it is usually seen prominently on a fence post or wire strand singing its song. It nests in a large loose construction of coarse grasses, often in a scrape on the ground where it has 3 - 5 eggs. It eats seeds and invertebrates.

We briefly watched the very prominent Alpine Swift, never getting to the trig point as there was no need with it flying overhead, we beat a hasty retreat as the black clouds rolled in once more and made it back with only a few spots of rain falling on us.




Record shot of Alpine Swift


The gathering on trig point Buckton Cliffs


The gathering clouds above trig point!

10 comments:

Roy said...

Good shots of the Bunting Mike under what must have been very poor light conditions.

Montanagirl said...

I will persevere - LOL. Thanks for commenting back to me about the word verification option. I'll try leaving this comment and muddling my way through what I think I'm seeing on the verification part. Love your little Corn Bunting. I have never seen one of those. The clouds gathering is an impressive shot as well.

John said...

Well done on the Alpine Swift Mike! you got a shot as well, very impressive!
Lovely shot of the Corn Bunting, you can see it was quite windy, a few ruffled feathers there! ;)
J
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Fernando Santos (Chana) said...

Excelentes fotografias de belas aves....
Cumprimentos

Mike Randall Bird Photography said...

Thank you very much everyone, I was very pleased to get the Corn Bunting.

Paul Riddle said...

The Corn Bunting was a nice capture, in what looked like poor conditions, nice one Mike!

JRandSue said...

Great treat Alpine swift Mike,love the Corn Bunting.
Keep them coming.
john.

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