Here it comes - giving views of all angles.....
Occasionally flashing a super!
After a brief preen....
There's food in the debris like this tiny snail?
Some full frontal work....
I got a good number of images of the Queen Mother res BBP in December 2012 - linked here.... The legs on that bird were much darker (as you might normally expect) and it didn't seem to have as much 'whiteness' in the wing bars. Presumably this is all part of variability within 'rubescens' but the legs of this bird with their reddish tones were so striking, it certainly made you wonder 'japonicus' ...... The buff tone to the underparts seems consistent with a North American bird however!
Oh and these was a cracking Siberian Chiffchaff showing well too.......
