Both Redstart andWheatear are only birds of summer in our islands, the latter arriving perhaps a week before the former, in April.
The migrations of the Wheatear are practically coincident in date.
The Wheatear bred in the quarries there, but the Redstart loved the range of rocks that ran bulwark-like along the valley above the copse.
The migrations of the Wheatear must be performed very quickly.
During the nesting-time the wheatearperches on a molehill, or a large flint, or any slight elevation above the open surface of the downs, and allows no one to come closer than fifty yards.
In Sussex, on the contrary, the wheatear is as regularly seen as the blackbird; and in the spring and summer you cannot go for a walk without finding them.
Both this bird and the White-rumped are closely related to our own Wheatear on one side and to our Stone-chat on the other.
These wheateartraps are excavations in the turf, about a foot long, in the shape of a T.
The Wheatear is a European bird, but this sub-species is found in Greenland and occasionally in Labrador.
Mr. Godman also shot a single specimen of the wheatear in Flores after a strong gale of wind, and as no one on the island knew the bird, it was almost certainly a recent arrival.
As a symbol the buckwheat typified plenty, but in addition to the wheatear proper there appear kindred objects which have been surmised to be, perhaps, fishbones, perhaps fern-leaves.
One would not expect to find a wheatear in a wood, or a wren in a reed-bed.
If you see a small bird flying low over the ground, with a white rump, and black wings, you may know that the wheatear is before you.
There, an adult wheatear was feeding insects to her young, which were three fourths the size of the parent.
On August 10, among rocks at the base of moraines, the wheatear was the second most common species.
The Wheatear has the crown, back of the head and back a beautiful ashen-grey; throat a faint buffish-white.
As regards a nesting site, the Wheatear is exceedingly adaptable, suiting himself to the locality.
But who would look for the Wheatear amongst the old slag-heaps, in the very heart of the North Staffordshire Potteries?
The Wheatear hides its nest away in heaps of stones, and crevices of the earth, and is most discreet as a rule in ensuring its safety.
They lie crushed together at the base, and on the point of this jagged ridge a wheatear perches.
While talking, a wheatear flew past, and alighted near the path--a place they frequent.
For the year is never gone by; in a moment we can recall the sunshine we enjoyed in May, the roses we gathered in June, the first wheatear we plucked as the green corn filled.
A few days' sunshine and the first wheatear appears.
It seems very much to take the place of the Wheatear, arriving about the time the Wheatear departs, and mostly frequenting the same places.
A very common summer visitant to all the Islands, arriving in March and departing again in October, none remaining through the winter--at least, I have never seen a Wheatear in the Islands as late as November on any occasion.
Presently a great blackness appeared low down in the cloudy sky, and rose and spread, travelling fast towards me, and the little wheatear fled in fear from it and vanished from sight over the rim of the down.
As a matter of fact, the winter home of the wheatear is Africa.
The price of each wheatear was a penny, and it was the custom of the persons in the neighbourhood who wanted them for dinner to visit the traps, take out the birds and leave the money in their place.
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