In all the madness of the Bonelli's Warbler its easy to forget that the following birds are good records for St Helens :)
http://two-in-a-bush.blogspot.co.uk/
Been a couple of ravens knocking about for a week or so, wonder if they managed to breed anywhere local?
Been a few redstarts about but they're tricky to photograph especially in early morning sun and shade! Peter Alker managed to ring one today though watch his blog for details
Spotted flycatcher have been reasonably numerous and I optimistically surmise that there may have been up to 5 individuals at any one point....?
This wheatear was a little shy and ave me the "look", this was one of 3 present this morning after singles in the previous two days.
There has also been a few butterflies knocking about too including these two firstly a meadow brown and secondly a gatekeeper (butterflies are quite hard to capture with a long lens!)
The amount of orange on a meadow brown can vary thus making them look similar to the gatekeeper but the latter is smaller and if you look carefully at the "pupils" on the black dots the meadow brown has only a single white dot. Interestingly the gatekeepers other name is the hedge brown.
Paul B
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