I like kindness of stonechats, and when I searched YouTube for corroborative material, the first two videos I watched seem to testify to the kindness of stonechats! ❋ Unknown (2009)
A quick note on stonechats before I disappear outdoors again. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Around its margins, black-braided buds of the bog cotton are unfurling pert white flags, and the stonechats are chipping from sentinel rocks. ❋ Jim Perrin (2010)
On my right the stonechats bounce and bob on the breeze from outcrop to lancet outcrop of slate, chittering as they fly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The brief metallic warble and churling note of stonechats, busy among the brambles; a solitary black-headed gull motionless as a ship's figurehead on a promontory of rock; clumps of rock samphire, their umbels stained with pur - pie; yellow dandelions, pinpoints of brightness on the faded autumnal grass. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What I love most about stonechats, which are almost invariably in pairs, is their unobtrusiveness. ❋ Mark Cocker (2010)
The wind bellied out among the phragmites at the river edge and I was amazed to see a pair of stonechats, tiny thrush relatives, bending and swaying, flexing their tails and flicking wings to compensate for this movement, yet clinging hard to the reed tops. ❋ Mark Cocker (2010)
The number of birds is small certainly, although the trees, etc. are now in full leaf: no new birds seem to have come in, except the dove, and Edolius; neither Haematornis nor Brachypus yet observed, one or two fresh species of Alaudina, and stonechats have made their appearance. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
I have been studying the ornithology of these bare chalk mounds, and find the birds are practically the same as our commonest ones at home -- swallows, stonechats -- which have been very busy to-day -- our two water wagtails, and the wretched little sparrow. ❋ George Davidson (N/A)
As we gazed about us we saw that the cloisters and the garth and all the space within the walls were crowded with wild birds -- sea-fowl and crows, pheasant and blackcock, starlings and thrushes, stonechats and yellow-hammers, and hundreds of small winged creatures cowering for shelter. ❋ William Canton (1909)
The morning walk to North Ditton across the heath, so bleak and wretched in December, was a daily delight now the sun was glinting over the sea and the gorse was in bud, and the stonechats, which had vanished during the cold weather, were back among the boulders, darting from stone to stone in short, jerky flight, with that sharp, jarring cry which is the prelude to their sweeter spring note. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)
It's that big cleft where we found the stonechats. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
The stonechats, the larks, the quails, the goatsuckers and the grouse, which abound in the North African and ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)
Yonder, where the wheat can climb no higher up the slope, are the purple heath-bells, thyme and flitting stonechats. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
Significant declines were also shown by stonechats (38 per cent), treecreepers (27 per cent), great tits (5 per cent) and blue tits (4 per cent). ❋ Unknown (2010)
There were quite a few birds including wheatears, stonechats, fulmars nesting on the cliffs and a small hawk, probably a sparrowhawk or possibly a merlin. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Interestingly a couple of other London birders who are on Twitter also had stonechats today ❋ Harry (2010)
