Siberian Stonechat

In the Old World flycatcher family
Muscicapidae...closely resembles
the the European Stonechat .

Saxicola maurus

Fish ponds at Muang Boran

14Mar2016

Saxicola means a stone inhabit.

The stories of the old man i enjoy

Of the Scotland he grew up in as a boy

But the memory of his that i liked the best

Was the day in Spring that he found the stonechats
nest.

(Francis Duggan)