Rarity finders: Varied Thrush in Orkney
A repeat of Varied Thrush almost 40 years after the only previous record seemed an unlikely dream, but David Roche made it reality with his...
03/11/2021
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A repeat of Varied Thrush almost 40 years after the only previous record seemed an unlikely dream, but David Roche made it reality with his...
03/11/2021
Keith Ringland was shocked to find an East Asian visitor feeding on berries when he settled in for a routine photography session in his...
02/11/2021
Thirty-three years on from his first visit to Buckton, Mark Thomas scored yet another mainland mega at his beloved east-coast site.
31/10/2021
Picking out a Greater Yellowlegs was a find of a lifetime for Andy Carroll, and when the bird was joined by a Lesser Yellowlegs an...
30/10/2021
Steve Cribbin, David Hunter and Julian Pickering tell the story behind the stunning discovery of the most popular bird of the autumn.
19/10/2021
Initially thinking he'd discovered a Yellow-browed Warbler, David Bevan was in for a shock when his bird turned out to be a 10th for...
17/10/2021
John Bowler couldn't believe his eyes when another mega North American landbird visited his garden.
10/10/2021
The first twitchable White-tailed Lapwing in Britain for a decade was one of the finds of August. Stuart Taylor recounts the momentous...
06/10/2021
Alex Penn tells the tale of a magical day on the famous island at the end of September.
03/10/2021
September started with a bang after careful fieldwork allowed James McCallum and Kayn Forbes to confirm the identity of a mega warbler in...
29/09/2021
It was a North American landbird that got peak Shetland season underway, as David Cooper scored yet another mega find on Unst.
27/09/2021
Niall Keogh provides the full story behind a new species for Ireland, with an in-depth look at the bird's identification.
09/09/2021