black redstart

Relying on oldies now:-C

Lots of these lovely wee birds in Porugal and Spain

Another shot of the black redstart I saw by a beach a few days ago. It kept dropping down from a low stone wall to forage in the wrack.I took it leaning from my car window as I did not want to frighten it away by getting out of the car.

Well the weather has us confined to barracks again, so not a lot of joy here in Gods Country. Three more oldies, a Black Red from September.

I saw this bird perched on a low stone-wall at the top of a sandy beach covered with black sea-wrack.From time to time, the bird would drop down to the beach where it foraged for grubs in the wrack. I think this is a first-winter male black redstart but I am not sure at all.

Black Redstart along the undercliff. I haven't seen anything of these birds recently, so maybe they have moved on. If they have, I hope they've gone somewhere where the weather is better than it is here again today, awful!!!

Dust bath, that is;)

Still not any new stuff, haven't been anywhere in ages, so its more oldies.

Another shot of the Kingussie bird.

A nice surprise in Kingussie today.

Lucky to spot this chap hunting for flies on the sailing club roof at a local patch yesterday.

A Black Redstart from a walk along the beach last month.

Female Black Redstart along the undercliff.

One from early this year. Hoping to see some more of these birds over the cooler period, as they're great subjects to photograph.

Black Redstart, female I think, taken on the same beach walk as the Wheaty in my previous post.

Another bird from yesterday afternoons glorious session on the beach, and as you can see, this un was quite handy at keeping itself fed. I take it this is the female of the species? No sign of the handsome male yesterday, I guess he was down the pub.

Well me old mates gone back to Gods Country, but before he left, we had a beach walk on saturday morning. It was great to see a pair of these little beauties performing in the undercliff, I so hope they breed here again next year.

A lovely male Black Redstart being rude, turning its back on me, and showing me that beautiful red rump.

Not too keen on the wire fence as a perch, but this unbelievably is another lifer for me.

Another one from yesterdays beach walk, that I was really pleased with. I got more than a dozen nice shots of this pretty bird. The little bugger ended up having me chase about 400 yards along the beach after it. It would perch on the top of rocks in the undercliff, and as soon as I got the...

A Black Redstart taken along the cliffs/rocks, way back in April.