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Mike Kilburn
Gutted to have missed a whole week owing to a bird-free work trip to Kansai airport in Japan, a public holiday and a meeting in town yesterday. Anyway . . . today started with a Chinese Pond Heronand Richard's Pipit near the end of the south Runway before two briefly-seen falcons drifting over the Core Area had me twitchy for Amur Falcon before once of them circled and showed itself to be a male Eurasian Kestrel. I didn't get any more on the other bird which, presumably was also a Kestrel.
The only others birds on the roundabout proper were three Richard's Pipits, a Spotted Dove, and an Asian Brown Flycatcher, but the golf course came up trumps with half a dozen more Richard's Pipits, a Stejneger's Stonechat, standing upright on the grass (and for one-heart-stopping moment conning me into thinking "Wheatear!"), four or five Scaly-breasted Munias and best of all, in the company of some leucopsis White Wagtails, a fine male Black-backed Wagtail (95) (aka lugens White Wagtail) swooped in on black-edged white wings, and dropped onto the grass to show its black back, eyestripe and the gap between the black side of the bib and the neck patch. Another very good bird for the Magic Roundabout!
Cheers
Mike
The only others birds on the roundabout proper were three Richard's Pipits, a Spotted Dove, and an Asian Brown Flycatcher, but the golf course came up trumps with half a dozen more Richard's Pipits, a Stejneger's Stonechat, standing upright on the grass (and for one-heart-stopping moment conning me into thinking "Wheatear!"), four or five Scaly-breasted Munias and best of all, in the company of some leucopsis White Wagtails, a fine male Black-backed Wagtail (95) (aka lugens White Wagtail) swooped in on black-edged white wings, and dropped onto the grass to show its black back, eyestripe and the gap between the black side of the bib and the neck patch. Another very good bird for the Magic Roundabout!
Cheers
Mike
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