La notizia spettacolare è che un bel pettazzurro è stato osservato nel giardino di mia sorella, dentro Roma, a un km. da casa mia, mentre becchettava in un vaso. La descrizione e il confronto con le foto sono inequivocabili.
Credo che sia uno scoop, e non so cosa darei per avere un tale splendore nel MIO giardino... ma presumo che sarà già partito verso il nord.
Questo mi dà l'occasione per postare dei vecchi schizzi realizzati anni fa alla stazione ornitologica della Tomina, http://www.ebnitalia.it/QB/QB009/tomina.htm di un pettazzurro in muta parziale, tenuto in mano da un ornitologo. Schizzi veloci e incompleti, purtroppo.
Pettazzurro- bluethroat- Luscinia svecica |
Someone must have been thinking I'm getting lazy, having posted nothing for a while. Actually, my life has been complicated by my mother, fracturing her right arm, and my commissions that I try to fit in with the rest.
The amazing news is that a bluethroat has been observed and later identified in my sister's garden, not a mile from mine, in full Rome town, while pecking in a flower-pot.
I don't know what I'd give to have such a splendour in MY garden...but I presume that this migrant has already left heading north.
It gives me the opportuniy to post these sketches made in a bird-ringing station called La Tomina, years ago. This individual was a male in partial moult, so not too colourful, hand-held by a ringer. Very quick and never completed sketches, as usual, alas.
What a beautiful bird with a sweet face. Even without the rest of his color, he is a real beauty!
RispondiEliminaLook for images in full plumage Betsi...its a jewel!
RispondiEliminaIncompleti? Direi che c'è tutto quello che serve per identificare un Pettazzurro!!! Belli!
RispondiEliminaI can't wait to see him in full plumage! I am sorry to hear that you mother hurt herself. Hope that she is getting better. I was so fascinatd with the little bird that I forgot to mention your mother....sorry.
RispondiEliminaGrazie Mari...ma il pettazzurro non ha le ali bianche! ;)
RispondiEliminaBetsi, thanks for your concern, mother's coping well. Look up Luscinia svecica on Google images and admire the male bluethroat!
I did look up Luscinia svecica on Google and the birds are beautiful. Thanks for the tip.
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