Not really too much to be said about todays 4 hours watching Whinchats on Dartmoor. This is a bird that I always get a thrill out of seeing. It is an African migrant that I have seen them in their winter territories in Western Africa which was a thrill. On Dartmoor they are not too hard to find if you know where to look. The male is a very smart bird with the female not quite so colourful as is the norm.
In the first few minutes of the clip above, the male looks to have either a Cinnabar Moth or Burnet Moth. In the still below the male is carrying an invertebrate that I can't identify. 

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