Where there's muck....

I was working just for the morning today, therefore, I decided to leave earlier than usual to check on a muck-heap near Deopham for migrant birds.
At 0530 a glorious deep orange sky to the east suggested another wet day was on the way and indeed as I was traveling to my destination, cloud was building with rain soon to follow.
I arrived at the muck-heap and within minutes a male Wheatear was seen on the top of one of the heaps.  Settling in for a 30 minute watch at this location I was to eventually see 3 Northern Wheatears together (2 males and a female).  I wonder if the two males were the same birds I saw here on 30th April.
Conditions have been poor for a number of days now with heavy rain and strong northerly winds, with improving weather, sunny, warm, and favourable winds, the Wheatears will then undoubtedly continue their passage to their upland breeding grounds.
In addition to these passage Wheatear, a singing Whitethroat brightened a dreary morning.

Wheatear - one of three present at Deopham

Wheatear (female) at Deopham.

Wheatear (male) at Deopham.

Note the obvious differences between the male and female Wheatears.  The male has that striking head pattern which is accentuated by its black mask through the eye.  In contrast, this female Wheatear appears an overall sandy looking bird with far less patterning to the head area.  All sexes and ages of Wheatear however, have that highly striking white rump (an inverted T shape) which is especially noticeable when the bird is seen in flight.  A sharp "chack" was occasionally given.