northern wheatear

Wheatear , my first ever

Male Wheatear

Male.

I went birding yesterday .This was the last opportunity to take photos as we are now back in lockdown and can't stir away from our homes further than a kilometre. So I was lucky to find this wheatear near the beach at Suscinio.I just wanted a good walk by the sea so I didn't bother with a big...

Thank you everyone for your comments on my image of a White-legged Damselfly.Today I am posting a more recent image . It was taken two days ago at one of my favourite birding places.

I photographed this bird which I think is a Northern Wheatear while on holiday in Madeira last month. The forum I read on it said it was a very rare visitor to Madeira. Can anyone tell me if this is correct?

Thank you everyone for your very nice comments on my image of a skylark.This image of a wheatear was taken in the same field a few minutes later. I was standing motionless at the edge of the field and i watched it come towards me in fits and starts. It seemed completely unaware of my presence.

Nice, when confined to the house on lockdown, you get to photograph a migrant wheatear or two, through the garden fence. This bird will pass the breeding season much further north, but spent the whole day, with a Black-eared Wheatear, fueling up after crossing the Mediterranean Sea. This looks...

not very friendly, only could get this shot, unlike the black eared ones. thanks for viewing.

glad i found one today. ope more will pass by in the coming days. hope you like it.

One of 3 (2 males/1 female) birds together at a muck-heap near Deopham, Norfolk 4th May 2018.

A migrant first-summer male Northern Wheatear on the Lincs coast, in early evening light.

this time its the Northern, well he certainly the star of this fabulous month. hope you like it, thanks a million.

Thank you everyone for your very nice comments on my image of a pied wagtail. Now ,my SF image, an image of another friendly or curious bird. I had been chasing butterflies all morning and I decided to go back to my car to get my lunch. It was parked on the grassy dune by a rough wooden picnic...

Thank you very much for your very comments on my image of a butterfly.Here's another image taken earlier this year on the rocky coast of my favourite place, Quiberon.

I took this shot from my car on the rocky peninsula of Quiberon. It was the middle of the day and the heat -haze made the focussing a bit tricky.