Three days ago I found this poor little bird dead on our terrace; it had flown into one of the french windows. Its significance, however, later dawned on me, as it is a Redstart, pure and simple, not the Black Redstart which is all around us at the moment. The Albères book says that it is very rare in Catalonia, only two nests having been found - it is a rare passage migrant, apparently. It is strangely late in the year for it to be migrating through - very much a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time! On the other hand, the RSPB book Birds of Britain and Europe has them breeding right along the Pyreneean border from West to East. So it could be that we’re just on the southern edge of their range.
by Robin Noble
Three days ago I found this poor little bird dead on our terrace; it had flown into one of the french windows. Its significance, however, later dawned on me, as it is a Redstart, pure and simple, not the Black Redstart which is all around us at the moment. The Albères book says that it is very rare in Catalonia, only two nests having been found - it is a rare passage migrant, apparently. It is strangely late in the year for it to be migrating through - very much a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time! On the other hand, the RSPB book Birds of Britain and Europe has them breeding right along the Pyreneean border from West to East. So it could be that we’re just on the southern edge of their range.
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