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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MKinHK" data-source="post: 3157024" data-attributes="member: 21760">An unexpectedly free lunch paid dividends today as I added four more birds to the list for the quarter.First up was the tricky one. The White Wagtail pictured below is either lugens or ocularis, but telling them apart in winter plumage is not exactly straightforward. Any thoughmost gratefully received.  At present I tend towards lumens based on the good definition of the black eyestripe in front of the eye and the absence of any hint of dark centres to the coverts. There may also be a dark blotch on the left wing above the coverts. Any thoughts most gratefully received. It was in company with a more straightforward leucopsis White Wagtail on the same patch of lawn as a Richard's Pipit and in the same area the three Little Ringed Plovers were again on their usual patch of waterlogged lawn, A Dusky Warbler called a couple of times and a Chinese Blackbird flipped away across the road.I was delighted to find a pandoo Blue Rock Thrush lurking in a tree out between the fairways on the golf course, but even though the light was poor a zoomed-in photo confirmed the all blue face and underparts.From the seawatch point I picked up a couple of first winter Heuglin's Gulls, while three Grey Herons and a couple of Great Egrets were again on the jetty for the landing lights. I'm hoping that a few Black-tailed Gulls might show up next week as they did this time last year.The small flock of Spotted Munias were again on the Western Tangle - lunchtime must be their current drinking and washing time - and the Eastern Tangle hosted a juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron and the briefest views of a female Siberian Rubythroat - my first January record.CheersMike</blockquote>

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