As we walked around our local meadow yesterday afternoon I spotted a bird up high on a branch that I didn't recognise straight away. We were a good few meters away but my little Lumix camera has a great zoom so I grabbed a few shots before it flew away. From a distance it made me think of a swift or a house martin but when it flew off I could see it wasn't either of those. Once I uploaded the photo I checked out the RSPB species identifier but nothing was coming up that matched so I trawled some google images until I found something similar and, after double-checking back on the RSPB site, I have decided it was a spotted flycatcher. If you look closely at the photo you can see it has lived up to its name.
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| Spotted flycatcher, Cambridgeshire, UK |
Spotted flycatchers are on the RSPB red status list and it was a new spot for me so chuffed I managed a photo too! They arrive in the UK during late April and early May and will be off again in September so I shall try and remember to watch out for them at this spot next summer.
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