Wednesday 9 April 2014

9th April 2014 Rodmell

Little Ringed Plover 1
Wheatear 1

Little Ringed Plover at Rodmell

 
 
Wheatear at Rodmell
Digiscoped in evening light, but all the same, not quite the typical smart 'first of the year' male you expect to see. So, is it a first-summer male oenanthe or showing characters of leucorhoa 'Greenland Wheatear' (brown-tinged mantle & extensively suffused underparts)?