yellow wagtail

[Joe stockwell]

what i am trying to find out is weather saturday was too early to see a yellow wagtail, now my dad saw what he belives to be a yellow wagtail, but what he has discribed seems to be central a europe plumage bird, he didnt particularly get a fantastic view of the throat but he mentioned that the back was a light brown colour with yellow tinge, unlike grey wagtail, im off to see if i can find it tommorow morning so i will have to hope for the best

but what do you guys think?

[forktail]

best to leave it as unidentified.

F.

[PeterD]

what i am trying to find out is weather saturday was too early to see a yellow wagtail, now my dad saw what he belives to be a yellow wagtail, but what he has discribed seems to be central a europe plumage bird, he didnt particularly get a fantastic view of the throat but he mentioned that the back was a light brown colour with yellow tinge, unlike grey wagtail, im off to see if i can find it tommorow morning so i will have to hope for the best

but what do you guys think?

Wish you luck in finding the bird to photograph it and hopefully share the image.

PeterD

[butor2003]

Well they are arriving now in Europe, I saw a couple here in Switzerland last week, these were "Ashy-headed Wagtail" of the Italian sub-species.

Mike