yellow wagtail

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Any opinions about the ssp? A romanian ornithologist thinks that is a "xanthophrys"

Bathtime.

Yellow Wagtail at Albufera Marsh.

There are a fair few flava plus the odd dombrowskii and cinereocapilla here too. No British flavissima tho, so they must travel a different route.

The reflection on the water was in better focus than the bird, so I swapped their positions. Had you scratching your head for a moment huh? Hooray, my 200th photo on Bird Forum!

The Wagtails are quite a confusing lot. Here in Japan, we get Grey Wagtail, the occasional Citrine Wagtail and at least 4 subspecies of this charmer, the Yellow Wagtail. By the color pattern, I'd guess this a young female of the M. flava taivana subspecies.

Yellow Wagtail taken in Tainan (South Taiwan)

I was watching this wagtail, precariously balanced on this small mound of dirt. In the next breath it went head over heels. I had to laugh it was so funny.

Is this a Wagtails idea for saying up yours?

This yellow Wagtail was continously feeding just below one of the hides at the reserve giving us birders the chance to view it closely and take photos!

Iberian race.

beanbag; -0.33 EV; 1/250s; f/7.1; ISO 200 Taken from the car window during one of my usual short range trips ...

Yellow Wagtails, Male and female motacilla flava flavissima summer plumage. 2008:06:19 17:41:57 20-35mm @ 25mm 1/500 sec, f/11 Mode: Av Metering: Evaluative ISO: 400 AF mode: One-shot AF Drive: Continuous: frame 1 White balance: Auto Flash: Off File size: 14.5MB Image size: 4992 x 3328 Color...

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Another from my trip to Teesdale,this shows the amount of insect life in that part of the world also lovely meadows covered in beautiful wild flowers,i can almost remember the day when Lincolnshire had some of the same.

Stopped off at Pett Pools on the way back from Dungy yesterday, see this little fella wrestling with the wind.

Always a good variety of different Yellow Wagtail Races in Lesvos this Black headed type is from the Balkans, Turkey and the Caucasus

Another shot from Sammys point