A sightly less slow morning on the patch (compared to last weekend produced better numbers of common winterers including three
Thick-billed Warblers, three
Yellow-browed Warblers, two
Brown Shrikes, two
Asian Brown Flycatchers and a couple of
Taiga Flys. Many birds are still in some stage of prenuptial moult, so looking quite scruffy.
I spent a while chasing Pond Herons to document the various stages of moult that birds are currently in. A few examples are included below:
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| Bird 1: small areas of maroon suggest this is a Chinese PH |
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| Bird 1: dark coverts and primary shafts suggest it's a 2CY |
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| Bird 1: tail seems pretty clean, but dark primary shafts (& tips) obvious here |
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| Bird 2: I think this is going to turn into a bright Javan PH in breeding plum |
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| Bird 2 |
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| the colour of Bird 2 is closer to this Javan (from April 2011) |
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| compare Bird 2 with this Chinese PH photographed a few seconds earlier |
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