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This is the male Whinchat from my Dartmoor site. I travelled out there  this morning, it was a late decision, to see what the latest was with the Cuckoo and as you may know, both Whinchat and Stonechat breeding pairs are in that area as well. You may have read how my site had been "invaded" by a couple of other photographers, ethically  a big "no-no" and also how subsequently they were totally oblivious to their bad form.  You may have even seen photos of the whinchat pair that one of them posted on the  Birdguides website,  the same birds  that I had habituated to the perches here.  You may wonder also why I keep going on about it, well frankly because their rudeness got to me so much.  Anyway, enough of it now.  There was no sign whatsoever of a Cuckoo this morning so it seems that he has now started his migration, but the Whinchats were relentless in their search for food to sustain their growing nest full. I saw them repeatedly catch catterpillars and then fly  off with them to the nest, returning immediately to find more.

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Here's the male searching for prey.
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