With its broad, charcoal-black mask, silvery head, slaty back and brick-red belly, the male common redstart is among the finest sights of spring in Britain.
Redstarts are summer visitors to our shores, particularly to the woodlands of Wales and northern Britain, with some also to be found on heaths and forests in the south and east of England.
Despite …
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