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Nightjar in a grit tray - nice one Keith!

Posted by on September 21, 2009 8:40 PM | 

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Thanks to Keith Russell for sending me these two great shots of the Nightjar up at Leighton Moss at the weekend - a grit tray for Bearded Tits (sorry, Reedlings...whatever) isn't the most obvious place for one of these critters to hang out, but maybe it thought it blended in...
Keith explains: "I went to Leighton Moss on Saturday after the Great White Egret only to bump into the Nightjar.
"Got a couple of pics. It was an amazing creature comatose all afternoon on one of the grit trays except for a half hourly rocking motion and an occasional yawn".

Thanks again Keith - its behaviour sounds not dissimilar to my own on a good Saturday afternoon.
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies...

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Comments (3)

Ian Peters wrote...

The camouflage is a bit shot but it is a great shot.

Posted by: Ian Peters  | September 22, 2009 12:47 AM

baz wrote...

Wow great bird would've loved to have seen that in the grit tray

Posted by: baz  | September 22, 2009 9:42 PM

Chris F wrote...

I managed to catch up with the Nightjar aswell and got the Great White Egret from the Crag Road viewpoint overlooking the Allen and Eric pools and the saltmarsh.

Posted by: Chris F  | September 23, 2009 12:11 AM

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