Last Sunday revisited...Own Goal

Post date: Oct 03, 2010 4:21:34 PM

After an agonising week, in which I literally lost sleep over a bird, I have had to come to the conclusion (or rather its been pointed out to me) that the wagtail that I ID'd at the time as a Citrine is a White Wagtail. I could furnish lots of reasons why I thought it was a Citrine at the time but, basically, I f***ed up. Having spent most of the week trying to work out why it isn't a White Wagtail, I can't. At the same time I've tried to find reasons why it is a Citrine, failed at that also. So there it is, birding hari-kari, live by the blog, die by the blog! I have found a hole in the cliff which I intend to crawl into, and if any one is after some birding optics there's some in the Northrepps glass recylcling bin (beware though, they don't work on Motacilla's.)