Here's a juvenile wheatear I finished on Saturday.
The wheatear is a summer visitor in this country, they like to hop and run around open ground in upland habitats eating insects. The adults have very striking colouration and the name comes from a linguistic corruption of 'white arse' from the prominent white rump. This unfortunate chap was spotted after it clunked into a window at SASA during high winds last year.
He was very fiddly to do, I would say even more so than the robin and its larger! Songbirds have paper thin skin so it's very easy to perforate if you're not careful. His right eye was damaged, i tried to reconstruct the eyelid with the aid of superglue but it was a fiddly job and didn't turn out that great. His left side looks ok though.
Next on the list is either a grey squirrel, rabbit, or stoat with a vole...vote now!
In other news, we've discovered we have another bluetit using our birdbox to roost in :)
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