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| East meets West! |
A phone call from Tom last night, "You seen anything on your pager?"
"Er, no Tom. It's in the van. Two minutes...........*/@!..........I'll pick you up at 7.30 tomorrow."
We arrived at Holy Island, in glorious sunshine, and headed for the beach where a couple of birders had already found the Eastern Black Redstart. What a stunner!
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| Eastern Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros phoenicuroides |
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| Eastern Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros phoenicuroides |
It was joined a while later by an equally stunning male Black Redstart.....
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| Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros |
The day just got better as we headed to The Chare. We had Hen Harrier, 14 White-fronted Geese, Merlin, Sparrowhawk and a good laugh with a 'heavyweight' (in expertise and dimensions) group of birders trying to turn a juvenile White-front into a Bean Goose. The best decision was to go find a nailed on Bean Goose which we did in a stubble field at Dunstan near Embleton, several in fact, with Pink-foots, Barnacles and a couple of Ross's Geese just to add colour.
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| "They're talking b******s Tim. It's a juvenile White-Front. Let's go find a real one" More photos of Eastern Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros phoenicuroides are on my website. |
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