Rarity finders: Yellow-breasted Bunting on Out Skerries
Michael McNaghten and his friends lucked out on what is likely to prove one of the finds of the autumn.
26/09/2017
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Michael McNaghten and his friends lucked out on what is likely to prove one of the finds of the autumn.
26/09/2017
Rory Tallack fulfilled a lifetime ambition when he came across an American cuckoo on his old patch in west mainland Shetland.
25/09/2017
Brydon Thomason’s intuition that a small fall of Yellow-browed Warblers might have rarer company was confirmed when he stopped to explore...
22/09/2017
Séamus Feeney scored a mega-rare Nearctic shorebird along his favoured stretch of Sligo coast.
12/09/2017
Despite hobbling around Portland Bill on crutches, Duncan Walbridge still managed to find Britain's first mainland American Yellow Warbler.
29/08/2017
A routine trip to Mizen Head for Peter Dillon-Hooper and his son Eugene turned into something special when he spied a bright yellow bird in...
25/08/2017
Josh Jones' July visit to Terceira highlighted why it is never safe to rest on your laurels while birding in the Azores, even in the middle...
18/07/2017
Oddvar Heggøy and Gunnar Gundersen enjoyed a quite sensational find on the Norwegian island of Røst in late June.
10/07/2017
The joys of patch birding were never more apparent to Philip Bloor when a large slender swift hove into view at Longhaven and showed its...
06/07/2017
Giselle Eagle's cursory check of the island's southern circuit hit pay-dirt when a mystery song emanated from some elder bushes.
28/06/2017
Dedicated Hampshire patch-worker Andy Johnson on the discovery of another top-class vagrant at Hayling Island.
09/06/2017
Noss wardens Craig Nisbet and Andrew Denton were pleased eneough to have found what they thought was a Common Kestrel on Shetland; little...
30/05/2017