![]() ![]() Breeding male Red-breasted Flycatcher has an orange throat. Red-flanked Bluetail: Male is unmistakable. Call is a "hueet" or a hoarse "keck-keck." Similar Species Red-flanked Bluetail: Song is a clear whistle or short monotonous warble. Red-flanked Bluetail: Eats insects and berries forages on the ground and in trees. Incubation ranges from 12 to 15 days and is carried out by the female. Red-flanked Bluetail: Five to seven white eggs with brown concentrated at the larger ends are laid in a nest made of grass, roots and moss, lined with soft grass, pine needles, hair, and wool, and built in a stump, log, or on the ground. Winters in Asia, in the Indian Subcontinent, the Himalayas, Taiwan, and Indochina. Breeds in mixed coniferous forests in Asia, Europe, from Finland across Siberia to Kamchatka and Japan. Foraging below canopy giving high-pitched call probably as alarm. Although likely the nominate taxon, others cannot be ruled out. Red-flanked Bluetail: Rare vagrant to the UK & Ireland. 267 foreground recordings and 66 background recordings of Tarsiger cyanurus. Its diet is based on insects, also fruits and seeds outside breeding season. It breeds in upper-middle and marginally in upper continental latitudes, exclusively boreal and mountain. Female and juvenile have olive-brown upperparts, heads, and napes, orange-brown flanks, grey wash on bellies, blue tails and rumps, and white throats and eye-rings. Red-Flanked Bluetail ( Tarsiger cyanurus) It's a small passerine bird that lives in the coniferous forests of Eurasia. ![]() Belly and throat are white, flanks are orange-brown, and breast has grey wash. Punk Is Dead - Steve Ignorant, Crass Songs - The L.Red-flanked Bluetail: Small thrush with blue upperparts, head, and tail.Tired, disappointed, some of the 800 or so at dawn: ![]() Given the clear night and perfect conditions, as it got light it became evident that the bird had clearly moved on. Most had travelled many miles from all over the country and you can only feel for them heading off without seeing the bird. Hoping for better views I joined the inevitable throng the next morning pre-dawn. The light was fading fast and it was eventually given up as darkness fell and people drove away in the moonlight. There is a terrific account of the afternoons events are here: I had a chat with one of the finders I believe James McCallum finally identified the bird after some hard work to locate and get decent views over the previous hour. I got several poor views of the bird as it moved along the tops of the bushes and trees northwards. The bird had been located in the tops of some of the trees along the lane. There were a good number of people there, more than I had expected, with more arriving behind me. I knew straight away they knew where they were going - I didn't - so I kept in front and waited for them to indicate before taking the same track off the A149 straight to the right spot. I pulled out of Lady Ann's Drive in front of a well known Norfolk birder who was travelling at a decent speed. Although less than a mile away as the Robin flies, East Hills is almost inaccessible, and I was aware with an incoming tide there was no chance of getting there that afternoon, so I carried on my walk.Īs the second message came through, my amble turned into a sprint as the bird was clearly not at East Hills but somewhere at Wareham Greens, where I had been earlier that afternoon. Whilst ambling back to Holkham through Wells Woods, a message came through that a Rufous-tailed Robin, a bird only previously seen once in the UK and never on the mainland, had been found at East Hills. Then things suddenly got more interesting. A two hour walk was very nice but appeared to be no more than a pleasant sunny autumn afternoon. Strangely quiet, very little was seen or heard, with the exception of another Yellow-browed Warbler calling. After Cley, Wells Woods and Holkham seemed like a good destination. ![]()
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