Chris and I have been planning a project looking at Dartford Warblers for a while now and today we finally got the chance to put our plans into action. It was a fantastic bright and sunny spring morning except for being a little breezy, but we thought we would give it a go anyway. The wind was forecast to pick up even more later in the morning, so I met Chris at 7am and headed to the site.
It was breezier than we had hoped, which was made worse by the fact that the site was quite open. We spied our quarry immediately but had no joy at the first site, but at the second we caught a male and a female. There is something pretty special about the small Sylvia warblers, and I have been fortunate to see a few species over the years. In the hand though they are even more stunning.
The male bird has a dark grey head and grey-brown back which contrasts with the dark wine-red underparts, the iris and eye ring are bright red and fine white spots are present on the throat.
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