Whinchat

The full story is too painful to tell, but it involves a monstrous grip of a local Sabine's Gull. I simply don't want to talk about it... sniff...
Ahem, second prize in the beauty contest went to a coupla Whinchats on Blackbush Drove, near Whittlesey, Cambs (11.9.04). The best place for chats seems to be a little pull-in down there, where there is a bit of a dung pile and some rough, rocky rubbish. Here, in my only pic, a Whinchat fights the howling hurricane blasting across the open fen...