Tuesday 10 February 2009

Rose Coloured Starling

Report from Bob Haycock - This morning on my way to a meeting, I recorded a Rose-coloured Starling just north of Poyston Cross on the B4329. It was with a few other normal starlings flying/feeding along the roadside not far from gardens on the northern edge of this rather strung-out village. It was quite a well-marked individual (poss immature male?). I watched it for a few minutes from a vehicle at reasonably close range. There was no sign of it when I travelled south along the same road later in the day.