Bird Sightings: Wheatear

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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Wheatear

Wheatear

Oenanthe oenanthe

Photograph © Grahame Thompson
Upper Aird - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
May, 2004

Grahame is one of two British Ornithological Society ringers on the island, he does the East side. His usual areas are the Castle Grounds and Aiginish, plus a whole heap of other sites depending on time of year and species!

Our wheatear photographs:

Wheatear
Wheatear
pair
Wheatear Wheatear
Fledgling Wheatear
juvenile

Wheatears spend winter south of the Sahara (West Africa). The first migrants will probably leave Africa in January, males setting off a week or two before the females.

Other local bird photographs

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