Sunday 18 January 2009

Hawfinch, what we missed

Although we didn't see the Dolgellau Hawfinches this is a wing from one I found in Bulgaria,as John Cleese would say 'recently deceased' or 'dead'.
The extraordinary secondaries are iridescent blue but who can tell me why they are shaped like that?
Unfortunately I didn't have the means to spread and pin the wing...must go back there!