Leucistic blackbirds in Hereford
January 2013. Wildlife Extra has reported on
many leucistic and albino animals and birds in the last few years, but I have
never seen one myself, until yesterday. As ever, I wasn't looking for them, or
for anything else. I had just dropped by daughter at college and I stopped
somewhere I have never been before to walk the dog for 10 minutes.
I caught a flash of something unusual as I walked passed some scrub. A very bright black and white bird, all the wrong size and shape for a blackbird. Naturally, as I was in an urban park I didn't have binoculars or a camera, so I retrieved the 'emergency' camera from the cars glove box, and went back in search.
I caught a flash of something unusual as I walked passed some scrub. A very bright black and white bird, all the wrong size and shape for a blackbird. Naturally, as I was in an urban park I didn't have binoculars or a camera, so I retrieved the 'emergency' camera from the cars glove box, and went back in search.
To cut a long story............ There were two
leucistic blackbirds within 30 yards of each other, presumably from the same
brood. They were in the scrub, and I didn't have the greatest camera with me
(the photos are decidedly average, and that is being harsh on average), but at
least I can now join the leucistic club.
Perfect camouflage?
I will go back and try again, but it is now snowing, so for just a few days, they now have perfect camouflage.
I will go back and try again, but it is now snowing, so for just a few days, they now have perfect camouflage.
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