On Saturday 3rd December we travelled to the small village of Camrose in Pembrokeshire to see the UK's first Masked Wagtail from Central Asia. It is a split from White Wagtail, is a small passerine bird with a white face and is usually found in Kazakstan, Iran and Afghanistan - hardly places that are easy to birdwatch in!
It was a really stunning bird that we managed to get great views of on the rooftops and also feeding on mealworm put out for it by birders. Another fabulous bird of the autumn.
It was also lovely to see and chat to lots of birding friends, which makes it a sociable hobby.
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Masked Wagtail Camrose Pembrokeshire
Photograph taken by and copyright Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig |
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Masked Wagtail Camrose Pembrokeshire
Photograph taken by and copyright Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig |
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Masked Wagtail Camrose Pembrokeshire
Photograph taken by and copyright Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig |
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Masked Wagtail Camrose Pembrokeshire
Photograph taken by and copyright Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig
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About the Author
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Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig in Antarctica
Photograph copyright Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig
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Mya-Rose Craig is a 14 year old young British Bangladeshi birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, activist, writer and speaker. She is based near Bristol and writes the successful Birdgirl Blog, with posts about birding and conservation from around the world. She loved seeing Mountain Gorillas in East Africa and Penguins in Antarctica over Christmas 2015, her 7th continent.
Mya-Rose was a Bristol European Green Capital Ambassador along with Kevin McCloud, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, Simon King, Miranda Krestovnikoff and Shaun the Sheep! See the full list of Bristol Ambassadors. She has also been listed with the singer songwriter George Ezra and actress Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones as one of Bristol's most influential young people. She organised a conference in June 2016 aiming to increase the ethnic diversity in nature. Please connect with her on LinkedIn (Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig) so that she can invite you to join the Race Equality in Nature LinkedIn Group and be part of the change. Please like her Birdgirl Facebook Page and follow her on Birdgirl Twitter
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