Review of the Week: 9-15 September 2020
Tiree scored the big one with an American flycatcher – a British and Western Palearctic first – while a Sora graced Lundy and there was an...
16/09/2020
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Tiree scored the big one with an American flycatcher – a British and Western Palearctic first – while a Sora graced Lundy and there was an...
16/09/2020
Orkney delivered Britain's fifth Semipalmated Plover and a bonus Wilson's Phalarope, while Britain's largest-ever flock of Blue-winged Teal...
09/09/2020
Scarce drift migrants busied birders on the east coast and Northern Isles, while an early Isabelline Wheatear was a shock on Anglesey. Sam...
02/09/2020
Seabirds delighted in the South-West, while Eleonora's Falcon and Turkestan Shrike were the clear rarity highlights. Sam Viles and the team...
26/08/2020
Britian's third Scopoli's Shearwater made a reappearance off Norfolk and a European Roller was a brief visitor to East Yorkshire amid a...
19/08/2020
A shearwater in the Firth of Forth morphed into Britain's third Scopoli's, while early autumnal migrants along the east coast made for a...
12/08/2020
Another vintage summer week produced a first for Britain in the shape of Zino's Petrel, as well as a trio of wandering rare terns and the...
05/08/2020
The Bearded Vulture remained, a Stilt Sandpiper visited Orkney and there were more Sooty Tern sightings. Sam Viles and the team report on...
29/07/2020
The continuing Bearded Vulture was again the star, but a second Irish Brown Booby was reported and Lincolnshire's Caspian Tern remained....
22/07/2020
Although a certain vulture was the clear star of the show, plenty of other mega rarities were on offer across Britain and Ireland. Sam...
15/07/2020
Intimate encounters with an albatross at Bempton were the week's highlight, but another mega-rare seabird was seen off the Dorset coast....
08/07/2020
Despite it being the end of June, major rarities kept on appearing – it was another special week across Britain, Ireland and the Western...
01/07/2020