samamisicus

This very late Redstart was on the beach at Kilnsea near The Riverside which, with its prominent whitish wing panel is a good candidate for the SE race P. p. samamisicus; it showed pretty well on Saturday just after I got up to Spurn but unfortunately had disappeared when we made a concerted effort to catch it on Monday.
It is pretty much identical to one we had on North Ronaldsay last November but identification of females of this race is very difficult although you would think that any Redstart which turns up this late in the year is from somewhere to the east.

This Stonechat was also there