David Element
Wildlife Photography and Digital Video Images
____________________________________________________________________________________________________Birds 162 – Bluethroats
BLUETHROAT
Luscinia svecica
svecica (m)
BLUETHROAT
Luscinia svecica
svecica (m)
BLUETHROAT
Luscinia svecica
svecica (m)
BLUETHROAT
Luscinia svecica
svecica (m)
BLUETHROAT
Luscinia svecica
svecica (m)
BLUETHROAT Luscinia svecica (f)
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If the photographer had been asked to nominate a species of bird that he
would have wanted (but didn’t expect to) see in the UK then the handsome Bluethroat
Luscinia svecica would probably have topped the list. It
was therefore a matter of great delight to finally see not one but two of these
colourful little birds on the same day during a visit to Shetland, a relative
hotspot for this rarely observed species. The female had already been reported
by one of Shetland’s expert birdwatchers and it was duly shown to the party in
the Shetland Wildlife minibus but the male was found by the photographer not
far from where one had been reported a day or two earlier. As there had been a
small fall of these birds shortly beforehand this may have been the individual
previously reported from another site nearby but it could also have been a
different (red-spotted) male L. s. svecica. The bird was spotted on the foreshore by
the photographer during a solitary evening walk in fading light later that same
day so a high ISO setting was required. Several of the images above have been
cropped and in some cases the contrast has been adjusted to compensate for the
awful light.
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Highly
recommended is this beautiful film of a singing Bluethroat by Knut Fugl:
https://t.co/GYwYJR6qp0?amp=1.
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