Wheatear - Oenanthe oenanthe
Canon 800mm f7.1 for 1/1250th @ iso400
A Wheatear newly arrived into the UK probably from somewhere around the Sahara - now in North Wales and using a rocky outcrop favoured by sheep as a rubbing post to watch across the moorland. These birds spend a lot of their time running around the hillsides searching out insects interspersed with short flights between the vantage points which range from mole hills through to larger rocky outcrops.
Frodsham Marsh being a migration point often sees reasonable numbers of these birds arriving to rest and feed up before they move further north on their migration routes.
Another visitor from Africa to both the marsh, the hills of North Wales along with other locations around the UK is the Whinchat this bird uses the same nest site each year or the same nest site is used by a pair of Whinchat each year - along with the Cuckoo and the Wheatear these birds make long migrations to raise a family and spend the summer in the UK before returning south.
A Wheatear newly arrived into the UK probably from somewhere around the Sahara - now in North Wales and using a rocky outcrop favoured by sheep as a rubbing post to watch across the moorland. These birds spend a lot of their time running around the hillsides searching out insects interspersed with short flights between the vantage points which range from mole hills through to larger rocky outcrops.
Frodsham Marsh being a migration point often sees reasonable numbers of these birds arriving to rest and feed up before they move further north on their migration routes.
Another visitor from Africa to both the marsh, the hills of North Wales along with other locations around the UK is the Whinchat this bird uses the same nest site each year or the same nest site is used by a pair of Whinchat each year - along with the Cuckoo and the Wheatear these birds make long migrations to raise a family and spend the summer in the UK before returning south.