My second two-night stay on Hegura this month (October 2018), and ride of place on this trip has to go to Siberian Accentor; a lifer. For some reason I always failed to see this species, even when there have been several on the island, even when they've been nailed-on from the window of my accommodation(!), they simply don't show for me. Or haven't until now.
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| Got it!!! |
The Accentor aside, my best bird of the trip was a Pallas's Leaf Warbler simply because I haven't seen one for ages and they look fantastic. Fantastically difficult to photograph too. Other warblers proved less trying.
This 1st autumn Middendorff's didn't exactly sit-up but I can put the pieces together from the following images.
A warbler that really did give itself up was this Black-browed Reed on freshly mown grass...
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| It's not only wader that can have misleadingly dirty bills. |
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| Another Black-browed Reed, this one required patience to see. |
Interesting to compare the wing structure of these two; the point being formed by p3 in the case of the first bird with fairly evenly spaced feathers and p4 in the second with bunched feathers. I think to be able to see things like this is the beauty of having a camera. Without it I'd never have noticed this difference, not least because I wouldn't even have been looking for it.
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| The first bird with p3 clearly the longest and fairly evenly spaced feathers through 3-10. |
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| The second bird, showing p4 as the longest primary with quite different p3-6 spacings. |
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