The Run In. Pt.2, Issy The Wheatear

[Fifty points if you get the reference.]

The Solstice was marked by an inevitability.

This being that I would be right down the very bottom of the Nose, down by the Toe, when news of the Isabelline Wheatear's continuance would be put out.

[This paralleled nicely The Teacher's learning of it's finding the day before at the same spot*]

I'd been there to not see the sunrise - and indeed much else beside a couple of Purple Sands - but you have to put the hours in yadda yadda- leg it back up the Slopes....

::Dies::

::Returns::

The Hunger drove me, of course, and there is No Power In The 'Verse that can stand between a birder and a Glorious Bird. Oh no.

 

[No points for getting that -500 if you don't, though.]

Anyways, a not entirely short trip the The Backwater later and...

Turned his head at the wrong moment.

Rule 1. Find the twitch.

o;)

It's right there..!!

What??

C'mon it's right there. No not the frickin' BHG... Yeeeesh.

Ok, ok, fine;

Can you see me now?

Isabelline Wheatear

[Which, yes, looks quite a bit like an Isabelline Shrike. I'm sure there's a story]

So purdy

Considering how crocked my poor camera is, those aren't that bad. [Let's not discuss the 150-odd I erased...] For better shots, see anyone else who turned up's social media.

He** spent much of his time waiting for the big stupid animals to get off his boardwalk - a favourite hunting perch - with the odd bout of Mipit-menacing for kicks.

Speaking of pipits, a Wapit was also present, but seemed able to elude every single camera while still being seen by all present.

Lovely bird, right there, nobody misbehaved [Terrible Things were apparently promised to anyone who stepped off the boardwalk on the bird's side. Nobody dared risk it.***]. This is How Things Should Be.

[I may Be Using Too Much caps lock.]

[[I may not care]]

Happy Happy  Joy Joy

[For once unironically  :D ]

Be Seeing You...

[[* Where was I when the Issy was found? Far far out of reach.     Naturally. ]]

[[** Black lores = male. About the only difference between sexes. ]]

[[*** This is right and proper. Also, the Issy would come very close if you waited quietly. ]]