South Cumbria with Richard's Pipit and Brent Geese ...

The Ulverston Richard's Pipit was surprisingly easy to find this week as it initially perched up on overhead wires and then flew to a field with short grass ... this was quite unlike most of my previous expreiences with the species where the bird skulks in long vegetation ...

... the long hind-claw showing nicely ...

... meanwhile a Barn Owl hunted over the fields and then perched up conveniently ...

As the tide came in on the causeway to Roa Island a family group of Dark-bellied Brent Geese fed close by on the water's edge, the pale fringes of the juvenile showing nicely ...

... while on the other side of the causeway some Pale-bellied Brent Geese were equally obliging ...