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Post by tigertom on Sept 28, 2015 20:17:59 GMT
Seen this one back in April 2013 early Morning low light hence not a great pic, when I 1st seen it was perched on some railings alongside a busway in a wooded area at 1st glance as i walked past thought Oh a robin, but almost immediately I looked back at it thinking no its not but it flew to the wall with its back to me managed the one pic before it vanished into near by scrub, as I was on way to work i did not have time to relocate it. I did at time post on cheshire facebook page for id but with only got only three replies all three saying wheatear which it am certain it was not the habitat was in, was equivalent to a small clearing in woodland about the size of or a bit smaller than a robin with a robin like stance posture no white rump when it flew weather at the time had been clear and fine for last few days. I had at the time meant to post else were for id but by time i got round to it had lost the pic had been changing my computer at the time and thought i lost during file transfers but I came across it when searching for a file in my down loads the other day sorry pic not great thanks MIKE unkown by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr
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Post by dogghound on Sept 29, 2015 5:20:10 GMT
It's a wheatear :-)
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Post by aeshna5 on Sept 29, 2015 5:21:07 GMT
Wheatear.
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Post by tigertom on Sept 29, 2015 13:33:36 GMT
Ok wheatear it gos down as I know if i seen the that pic that what I would say it was and even at time did think of wheatear but was put of by its location gen jizz and total lack of white rump which was very evident in flight, but birds do turn up in unlikely places on migration though i still dont see why it was there with the good clear weather at the time, the lack of white rump can be put down to plumage variation MIKE
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Post by dogghound on Sept 29, 2015 18:05:25 GMT
You can see the white rump on the picture, at least the sides of it (possibly a bit of it's centre too?) Could you have perhaps missed this somehow? Either way it's a quite typical male oenanthe Northern Wheatear. Perhaps it followed the road edge onto more unfavourable habitat. As you say migrants do turn up in odd places.
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Post by tigertom on Sept 29, 2015 19:24:29 GMT
No I did not miss white rump if there was any white I would of seen it got a clear view as it flew low into cover it may have had white edges to tail but not the normal blaze of white on rump you would of expected on a wheatear one of reasons I just was not sure of this bird along with location which was very strange to say the least will get a pic of this and post do get some odd birds turning up round this area
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