Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe

When I returned to the caravan hide this morning I was really pleased to see two male Wheatears still feeding in the field. Of course I have no way of knowing if this was two new birds or if they had remained from yesterday. I tried really hard to get some good photographs. By creeping in to the field and by hugging the fence line I managed to get half way up the field. I then sat under a bag hide close to a bramble bush and waited....... and waited ..... and waited a bit more. It's a big area and it was always going to be hit and miss. Even though they were mostly too far for a good photo I did manage a couple of nice pictures that showed the birds, well one of them, in the habitat. As I alluded to yesterday, Wheatears undertake some of the longest migrations. The birds that I saw today are not necessarily going to remain in the UK, they are potentially on their way much, much further north. Every Wheatear spends the winter in Africa even though they may breed as far away as Canada, Asia and the very far North (as well as here in Devon and the rest of the UK).