Article for 2008 May 22
Part of the “Redwing spring” series.
2008
2008 May
May 22 Thu “RHEA”
At first I thought is was a robin or a wren scurrying along the leaf litter, but then I saw that the birdie’s face and breast weren’t brown like a wren or red like a robin, but a dull silver-blue. Later, leafing through the bird-book, I found that no British (or European) bird had blue on the face and breast... except the dunnock, which “scurries along the on the ground with lots of tail-flicking, close to the cover of deciduous trees and bushes”... That’s my bird!
