Eurasian Hobby and Northern Wheatear at Alphonse

Above: Eurasian Hobby; below Northern Wheatear
All photos by Pep Nogués.

The first vagrants to Seychelles to be reported in 2017 come from Pep Nogués & Ari Fernandez at Alphonse. These are a Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo on New Year's Day and a Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe on 4th January. Seychelles Bird Records Committee has accepted 29 previous records of Eurasian Hobby and 74 records of Northern Wheatear.