There’s a female Stonechat, Saxicola torquata, on Trendlebere Down on Dartmoor. It’s flying to the highest perch in this low scrubland. It’s on top of yellow gorse, and that would make a wonderful photograph, but I never manage to catch it just right: Back home I look at Charles Tunnicliffe’s … Continue reading Stonechats on Trendlebere Down and Tunnicliffe’s Brooke Bond Bird Portraits