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Fascinating Flycatcher from Bulgaria (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter CJW
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Jane Turner
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Blimey Chris... did it look like a Spott fly in general demeanour? it looks really long-legged in that first pic too... I'm guessing you have been though all the other possible Muscicapa flycathers!
I was expecting it to be a hybrid type Collared/Pied or Semi-collared from the description...
From memory.. need to dig out Svensson - its an adult... so either its stained or just has a smoky head....
I have seen a charred Spott Fly - that I'm guessing got too close to a gas flare!
I was expecting it to be a hybrid type Collared/Pied or Semi-collared from the description...
From memory.. need to dig out Svensson - its an adult... so either its stained or just has a smoky head....
I have seen a charred Spott Fly - that I'm guessing got too close to a gas flare!
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CJW
Hit-and-run WUM
It looked just like a Spot Fly in all other respects, Jane - although it was considerably more 'secretive' than the thousands we saw during the fortnight.
I've only checked the south-east Asia field guide (the bird was seen after a week of easterlies) and I can't come up with owt else, it's gotta be an 'odd Spotty'.
I've only checked the south-east Asia field guide (the bird was seen after a week of easterlies) and I can't come up with owt else, it's gotta be an 'odd Spotty'.
Jane Turner
Well-known member
Was it evenly smoky too... perhaps it was fresh out of an interaction with a sooty chmimney!
Jane Turner
Well-known member
It could be.. but there is something powdery about the bird too - in the middle pic it looks more like staining...
Grousemore
Senior Member
CJW said:
Hope they weren't all as difficult as that one!
Welcome back and hope it was a good trip...looking forward to hearing about it.
CJW
Hit-and-run WUM
Bluetail said:
I'm sure it is Jason, it's just the distribution of the melanism seemed a bit odd - being restricted to the face and breast as it was. When seen from the rear it was just like a 'normal' Spotty. I would have expected (perhaps wrongly) that there would have been other areas of plumage affected. It certainly wasn't stained in any way.
CJW
Hit-and-run WUM
Grousemore said:
Thanks Trevor, it was a wonderful trip and most of the birds were fairly straightforward to identify - although I must admit to being somewhat daunted by the larger raptors (eagles in particular) in the early part of the trip.
I'm working on the report and hope to be posting something later in the week.
Jane Turner
Well-known member
The right hnd picture seems to be the most revealing - its as though the streaks on the feather shafts are unusually thick,.... but otherwise the correct colour for a Spot Fly
