Female Redstart
The female Common Redstart is often less easy to photograph. It’s more camouflaged and stealthy in its behaviour. It’s just as beautiful as the showy male.
I really do seem to have far more photographs of the male. Here he is calling:
And providing food for the chicks with a very decorative Snipe Fly:
And just sitting there:
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