wheatear

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• There was a female redstart, a couple of Rüppell's warblers, northern, Cyprus and black-eared wheatears, three woodchat shrikes, chiffchaff, and a tawny pipit.
• On this walk I was lucky to see a flock of 40 wheatears returning to the moors from wintering in Africa.
• A short car tour and a lengthy walk turn up not even a fleeting glimpse of a wheatear's white rump, and so we set off for Airidh nam Ban in the hope of at least hearing a chiffchaff among the trees there even if we don't see one. Country diary: South Uist
• But diet extends to a selection of birds including warblers and even swallows, wheatears and nightingales.
• In the scrub areas I once again saw both Desert and Isabelline wheatears.
• The Sussex shepherds who could earn up to £50 a year by supplying wheatears to poulterers in Brighton used to attend an annual celebration dinner, until about 1880.
• Other species such as the wheatear, ring ouzel, and sandwich tern have all been observed about one week earlier than usual.
• The stunning list of passerines to be found at the site includes calandra lark, crag martin, rufous - tailed scrub robin, three species of wheatears, blue rock thrush, various species of warblers, rock nuthatch, lesser grey and woodchat shrikes, rose - coloured starling, rock sparrow, black - headed and ortolan buntings, and others.
• Skylarks, wheatears, pipits and greylag geese fill any silences that remain.
• The beautiful underfoot carpets of blue gentium delight the eye and, above fly buzzards, eagles, skylarks and wheatears.