#wheatear

[scottpartridge]

Days 25 and 28 of #migratorymay2026 - Bar-Headed Goose and Northern Wheatear.

The Bar-Headed Goose has been observed flying over Mount Everest and other Himalayan mountains.

"Wheatear" is derived from "White Arse"

[sweet-harmony]

…rainy night, but the clouds are thinning and the feathers will soon be dry…

@sweet-harmony

[herpsandbirds]

Atlas Wheatear (Oenanthe seebohmi), family Muscicapidae, order Passeriformes, Atlas Mountains, Morocco

photograph by Dušan Brinkhuizen

[best-bird-tournament]

Chats (Saxicolinae) subfamily - round 1, section 1

Which is the best bird?

Himalayan bluetail

Hooded wheatear

Blue-fronted redstart

White-throated rock thrush

Amur stonechat

Mocking cliff chat

Tractrac chat

Arnot's chat

Bagobo robin

White-throated robin

Blue-fronted robin

Moorland chat

Voting ended onOct 4, 2025

[all-bird-creechur]

Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe

The northern wheatear is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in open stony country in Europe and east across the Palearctic with footholds in northeastern Canada and Greenland as well as in northwestern Canada and Alaska. It nests in rock crevices and rabbit burrows. All birds spend most of their winter in Africa.

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[57amp3r]

Wheatear and ringed plover, Iceland /Ísland, 2001

[anser-leviculus]

birds i heard and saw today on a hill:

parachuting meadow pipits singing their enigmatic song

willow warblers chasing each other through the gorse full of the excitement of spring

tseep! tree pipit announcing its presence then zooming past overhead

five or six fresh little wheatears hopping about and collecting sun on the scree

a swallow skimming the ground low while it flew through, perfectly matching the contours of the hill

shiny male redstart in the sunlight

lots of linnets and redpolls and siskins calling from way up above

a green woodpecker calling from way down below

little ringed plover! it flew over and called a few times - piu! piu! piu! - on its way to who knows where

birds i heard and saw today near the coast:

shelduck doing a funny little dance

whitethroat with lovely orange-rufous highlights in its wings

just the head of a ruff poking out from behind an island - almost missed it!

a feeding flock of black-tailed godwits in various states of moult, just a 20-30 meters away

[birdsofwirral]

A day out with the camera trying to work on improving sharpness. Dunnock, Long Tailed Tie, Wheatear, Mandarin Duck, Great Spotted Woodpecker. Leasowe and Arrowe Park