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Author:  Roy Harvey [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:32 am ]
Post subject:  Dark Wheatear at Donna Nook

Any Wheatear in the second week of November is worth close scrutiny and I was interested in a dark specimen
yesterday at Donna. The bird seemed to have recently arrived as we found it when it was almost trodden on when sheltering against longer grass beside the track.
I considered that it could possibly be a Greenland Wheatear but Graham thinks that the structure is not right, and in any event recent winds have been coming from the east and south-east.
With there being Isabelline, Pied and Desert Wheatears along the east coast during the last week or so, one wonders whether the dark bird at Donna may have Asian origins?
Pictures in album.

Comments welcomed.

Roy

Author:  Terence Whalin [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:20 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Dark Wheatear at Donna Nook

hmm like that roy, my first thoughts are same as yours was greenland, nobody with a net around to check wings etc, dont think i have seen one as dark as that, :| :|

terry whalin :D :wink:

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