by Francisco Javier García Vargas
On 26/XI, when I was walking through the El Rubicón plains, near Playa Blanca, in the South of the island, I could see a Stonechat on a rock.
I started to take photographs of the bird when I could see that the Stonechat was disturbed by a bigger bird, that I could identify as a Wheatear. My first thought was that the bird was a Northern Wheatear, but when I saw the bird through my binoculars, my heart was near the colapse when I discovered that the bird was really an Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina.
The bird was relatively tame and I could take a series of pictures.
This will be (if accepted) the first record of this species for the Canary Islands.
A new Mega for 2010!!!!
Isabelline Wheatear-Oenanthe isabellina-Collalba Isabel
El Rubicón plains. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
Isabelline Wheatear-Oenanthe isabellina-Collalba Isabel
El Rubicón plains. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
Isabelline Wheatear-Oenanthe isabellina-Collalba Isabel
El Rubicón plains. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
Isabelline Wheatear-Oenanthe isabellina-Collalba Isabel
El Rubicón plains. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
Isabelline Wheatear-Oenanthe isabellina-Collalba Isabel
El Rubicón plains. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
Isabelline Wheatear-Oenanthe isabellina-Collalba Isabel
El Rubicón plains. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
Issy
Compliments…
a most interesting record and surely it is 100% an Oenanthe isabellina
Andrea Corso
Untitled Comment
Thank you very much Andrea. Without any doubt, one of the birds of the year for the Canaries and the Macaronesian region.
The editor.
Red billed Tropic Bird
Just seen the photos you took last April. I was on the quay, by the diving club, when you took them and I got a couple myself ( not as good as yours)! we are coming to Lanzarote tomorrow for 1 week and hope to see birds we don't get here in UK.
Tony Hurst