17:40, 13 JUN 2016
UPDATED 17:40, 13 JUN 2016
Paul Gartley has spent a month
trying to get footage of the birds
A bird watcher who spent a month
trying to film an elusive species believes he has finally captured them on
camera.
Paul Gartley says he repeatedly
saw a group of albino blackbirds in the early morning as he walked his dog in
Irlams o’ th’ Height, Salford ,
but wanted to gather some hard evidence.
Paul, 42, thinks he finally
caught the birds on his mobile phone as he walked on Bolton Road playing
fields.
He told M.E.N: “I only saw them
very early, between 4am and 7am in the morning. They hang around with others
and I read online that they only last about a month in the wild because they
stick out to predators.
"They bounce off as soon as
you get within 50 yards of them but two weeks ago I managed to get close in my
car and watch them for a couple hours.”
Albinism is often genetically
inherited, and is a recessive characteristic, leading to rare numbers and very
few of them surviving in the wild.
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