Scilly day 13 - Subalpine Warbler take 2

The Subalpine Warbler continued to stay and show 'very well' in the Sycamores of St. Mary's Hall Hotel, only 400m down the road from where I was staying. It would have been rude not to have another look? And try to get better images of that spread tail......

Initially not easy in the dappled sunshine but there were one or two shadow free images....

With a strong wind blowing, it spent a lot of time low down in the crown of the trunk.

Picking off tiny aphids!

And generally looking good from all angles!

A nice series whilst on one of the very few bare branches!

This one will do nicely.......

And I never did get a worthwhile tail shot!

Scilly day 11 - Subalpine Warbler showing well!

After the dodgy record shots of the previous evening, time to get to work with an obliging Subalpine Warbler! A tad improvement in quality was noticed :-)

"It's showing well now at the end of the branch"!

So many leaves!

So many aphids,,,,,

Always on the move.....

"It's showing  in the open now...."

And nearly daring to fan that tail well for the assembled?

East or West (which might be best), wherever you're from, we will probably never know?

Scilly day 10 - Subalpine Warbler

A busy day turned frantic in the last hour or so of light with news of a Subalpine Warbler (possible Moltoni's) breaking in Hughtown - in the garden of St Mary's Hotel.

Quite a gathering too and after a couple of brief glimpses it reappeared in a garden some 100m away - too distant for anything other than record shots but here's one or two 'for the record'....

Two random tail images, unfortunately not spread!

The only 'half decent' shot!

There will be better shots from others and hopefully, from earlier in the day in better light! Fingers crossed it will stay overnight - and give us a 'call' tomorrow! I'm sure I'll be updating this in the light of tomorrows action?