Birds and Moths

 of Burnham-on-Sea

Photographs of a Pied Wheatear!!, seen at Burnham-on-Sea, 30th November 2003.

These are video grabs of analogue video footage kindly converted to digital by James Packer.

The bird seen in the following pictures is clearly either a Pied Wheatear or Black-eared Wheatear, quite how we made this error I don't know, and if it hadn't been for a local identification expert seeing the photograph that was posted on this website (at the bottom of this page) we would never have questioned it. At the time of observation we were not sure, and played with the idea of Pied or Desert. Desert wheatear was easily ruled out because of the white in the tail. I believe that it is a female Pied Wheatear.

Any suggestion as to it's identity would gratefully received and apologies to anyone who, had we realised what it was, could have tried to see the bird. I spent about an hour in the rain getting soaked trying to relocate it at lunchtime to no avail.

Pied Wheatear, Burnham-on Sea, 30th November 2003

Pied Wheatear, Burnham-on Sea, 30th November 2003

Pied Wheatear, Burnham-on Sea, 30th November 2003



Pied Wheatear, Burnham-on Sea, 30th November 2003


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