Yellow Wagtails

 always one of the British spring highlights although getting scarcer every year it seems - 

some further R6 images

 getting a better feel for this camera and how it works - the Yellow Wagtail was through a reed fringe needing manual focus initially; the harriers are pretty big crops but all 12 in a sequence were in focus but light and contrast are clearly key factors - nice to get rid of the glaring overhead sun and heat haze! 

The Northern Wheatear looks like a Greenland

Yellow Wagtail portrait

our closest thing to an American wood warbler in brightness and always great to see the first spring birds back -- slightly unusual to get a shot in a nice Willow

Spring firsts today

a fine local Yellow Wagtail and at least three Tree Pipits back on territory in the forest

Yellow Wagtails

considerable individual variation in males (some age related) so if we accept they are all flavissima then how much variation do we accept in flava? cracking birds though 

September Yellow Wagtails

shots from 15th

male Yellow Wagtail in wheat and Yellowhammer

all with Canon 1D4 with 500f4 and 2x III converter hand held out of car window

Yellow Wagtails,