Wallcreeper - the Hoopoe of the Rock Face!
01st July 2019
We have seen Wallcreepers previously in the Pyrenees but they are always a nice bird to see anywhere. They live a precarious life nesting high up on very remote cliff faces in inhospitable areas.
They are a colourful bird when they open their wings to reveal the blood – red markings, but until then they can often go undetected.
They flutter around, high up on these cliff faces like a giant butterfly or even a Hoopoe and they have been named by some as the Hoopoe of the cliff face. We drove to remote areas in the mountains of Bulgaria and Romania to try and see these birds and in a few locations we could see them flying high above us and then perching on the cliff faces.
These birds spend their life clinging to vertiginous rocks ‘Winkling’ out small grubs, spiders and other insects.
We spent time in locations watching them go back and fore nest sites high up on the cliffs and it was a very pleasant way to spend early mornings.
They are a colourful bird when they open their wings to reveal the blood – red markings, but until then they can often go undetected.
They flutter around, high up on these cliff faces like a giant butterfly or even a Hoopoe and they have been named by some as the Hoopoe of the cliff face. We drove to remote areas in the mountains of Bulgaria and Romania to try and see these birds and in a few locations we could see them flying high above us and then perching on the cliff faces.
These birds spend their life clinging to vertiginous rocks ‘Winkling’ out small grubs, spiders and other insects.
We spent time in locations watching them go back and fore nest sites high up on the cliffs and it was a very pleasant way to spend early mornings.