Monday, 1 September 2008

MONDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER 2008

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Today's Images - top to bottom Juvenile Marsh Sandpiper, Bowling Green Marsh, Topsham, South Devon, 31 August 2008 (Dave Stone) (two re...
Sunday, 31 August 2008

27-31 AUGUST 2008

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HIGHLIGHTS From 27-30 August, Cape Clear Island (County Cork) hosted three gross North American rares - the juvenile SOLITARY SANDPIPER ab...
Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Third BAIRD'S SANDPIPER for Cambs

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A juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was discovered by Martin Davis on Pumphouse Pit, Paxton Pits NR (Cambs) this afternoon. It was still prese...

NEARCTIC FALL ON CAPE CLEAR

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News is coming in of a WATERTHRUSH species, perhaps NORTHERN , in the Central Bog area of Cape Clear Island (County Cork) (note that this i...

MARSH SANDPIPER at Hickling Broad, NORFOLK

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Hard working patch worker Andy Kane discovered a juvenile MARSH SANDPIPER at Hickling Broad Rush Hills Scrape (Norfolk) on Monday 18 August...

Juvenile Eurasian Shags disperse inland

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Displaced juvenile Eurasian Shags inland, including up to 6 individuals at Draycote Water (Warks) (upper three photographs taken by Dave Hut...

WEDNESDAY 27 AUGUST

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In County Cork ( IRELAND ), the first-winter male YELLOW WARBLER remains at Mizen Head, showing well from 0700-0730 hours at least. DIRECTI...
Tuesday, 26 August 2008

TUESDAY 26 AUGUST

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In North Yorkshire, the juvenile BLACK STORK present previously in Northumberland and County Durham from 8-13 August remained for a third d...

Two YELLOW WARBLERS make landfall in County Cork IRELAND

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TUESDAY 26 AUGUST Cape Clear Island Bird Observatory warden Steve Wing had a very brief and poor view of a bright warbler on Sunday morning ...
Monday, 18 August 2008

MONDAY 18 AUGUST - AUDOUIN'S GULL IN LINCOLNSHIRE

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Today's Images (from top to bottom) Adult Audouin's Gull, Chapel Point Beach, North Lincs, 17th August 2008 (Kevin DuRose) Adult Glo...
Thursday, 14 August 2008

Remarkable record of THRUSH NIGHTINGALE inland

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Images above Adult Baird's Sandpiper at Balgarva, South Ford, South Uist, Outer Hebrides (John Kemp) Female Lesser Grey Shrike, Hartla...
Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Colour-ringed EURASIAN SPOONBILL in Hampshire

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Dutch birder Otto Overdijk has kindly provided the following information relating to the colour-ringed EURASIAN SPOONBILL currently residing...

DEEP ATLANTIC LOW PROVIDES SEAWATCHING OPPORTUNITIES

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Westerly winds up to Force 8 battered the Southwest and South Coast today, providing excellent seawatching at exposed promontories. Some 40 ...

LESSER GREY SHRIKE IN DORSET

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The bottom two images (videograbs) were taken by Stevie Evans and the upper (perched atop the yellow digger) by Jeff Hazell. Since Saturday ...
Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Durham BLACK STORK still Top Billing

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For the past two days, the juvenile BLACK STORK has been performing down to just 45 yards in the allotments and fields just south of Clara ...
Sunday, 10 August 2008

SUNDAY 10 AUGUST

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Today's Scillonian III pelagic trip was perhaps the worst so far, with only 400+ Storm Petrels, 2 very distant Cory's Shearwaters, 3...
Saturday, 9 August 2008

MORE TWO-BARRED CROSSBILLS AND A JUVENILE BLACK STORK

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In County Durham, a juvenile BLACK STORK (present since at least 1st August) has been showing very well 2.5 miles WSW of Blaydon and 0.25 m...
Wednesday, 6 August 2008

TWO-BARRED CROSSBILLS BREAK ALL-TIME RECORD

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With the arrival of 9 Two-barred Crossbills on Fair Isle this afternoon, a new record has been set. With 33 now recorded since the first on ...
Tuesday, 5 August 2008

AUGUST 2008 RARE BIRDS

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If you have additional records not listed here, can you kindly email me with details at LGREUK400@aol.com AUGUST 2008 Summary of News (All ...

AUGUST 2008 DAILY NEWS SUMMARY

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WEDNESDAY 6 AUGUST 2008 The first-summer female LESSER GREY SHRIKE remains on Hartland Moor this afternoon, frequenting the gorse bushes an...