tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485719326359045629.post5711164651345126227..comments2023-02-07T17:10:28.554+00:00Comments on Dermot Breen's Blog: Dusky WarblerDermot Breenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15333445847314331794noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485719326359045629.post-57293802220245871672012-10-23T14:48:47.268+01:002012-10-23T14:48:47.268+01:00Thanks for the clarification Colin.Thanks for the clarification Colin.Dermot Breenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15333445847314331794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485719326359045629.post-36799171357934270642012-10-22T09:09:20.152+01:002012-10-22T09:09:20.152+01:00Nice birds Dermot. According to David Cottridge an...Nice birds Dermot. According to David Cottridge and Keith Vinicombe in "Rare birds of Britain and Ireland - A Photographic Record" (1996), that Dusky Warbler, that you refer to, was ringed on the Calf of Man on the 3rd of May 1970, and then found dying near Limerick the following December. Although apparently people at the time assumed that the bird must have spent the intervening summer in Western Europe somewhere, the authors of the book theorise that the bird could have been a 'reverse migrant' (i.e. one which does its migration 180 degrees in the wrong direction (compared to most of its population) which had gone back to Siberia for the summer (having wintered in the Britsh Isles for the winter of '69/'70), and then come back again to winter in Ireland before perishing in Limerick in December 1970.<br />Cheers,<br />Colincolintheconroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16206930959002081758noreply@blogger.com