The story of the Shetland Tengmalm's Owl
Jackie and Erik Moar didn't recognise a small owl perched outside their bedroom window in Shetland's west mainland, but John Coutts was on...
01/03/2019
All our rare bird stories from Britain and Ireland.
Jackie and Erik Moar didn't recognise a small owl perched outside their bedroom window in Shetland's west mainland, but John Coutts was on...
01/03/2019
Toby Phelps and Matt Doyle took a short break from university work to go seawatching during Storm Erik and, incredibly, connected with a...
15/02/2019
Sam Viles takes a look at historical records of Pied Crow around the Western Palearctic and assesses whether the wide-ranging 2018 bird has...
26/12/2018
December may not be considered prime time to find rarities, but Tony White's trip to the Anglesey coast nonetheless produced a major...
20/12/2018
Shetland has the ability to produce extreme rarities at any time of year, as Brian Marshall demonstrated when he came cross an ultra-rare...
18/12/2018
Sam Viles was seeking Pallid Swifts when he visited Hartlepool Headland on 11 November but, thanks to his girlfriend's superior optics, he...
21/11/2018
Allan Conlin summarises the recent occurrence of a well-twitched Pied Wheatear on his North Wirral patch, which represented a new species...
13/11/2018
Stuart Rivers had always hoped to find a North American oriole on his beloved island of Barra and, after almost three weeks of hard graft...
30/10/2018
Stephen Dunstan has been visiting Shetland for over a decade and finds the late October period hard to beat – if the wind is in the east.
13/10/2018
When Tim Davis and Tim Jones glimpsed a bright Phylloscopus, they were delighted to have found what they thought was a Greenish Warbler....
12/10/2018
After a spell of westerly gales, Chris Turner, Michael McKee and Pete Forrest scored heavily with Foula's second White-crowned Sparrow in...
08/10/2018
On the back of westerly winds, John Lowrie Irvine wasn't expecting to find a Critically Endangered Siberian bunting on his home isle.
26/09/2018