UK400ClubRareBirdAlert

This is the UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert highlighting all records of avian interest and published in association with Rare Bird Alert Pagers and utilising additional information gleaned from the Regional Birdlines, BirdGuides, local email groups and individual observers

Wednesday, 31 December 2008

ANOTHER YEAR OVER - A NEW ONE ABOUT TO BEGIN

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Year 2008 saw a new record of 445 species recorded in Britain and Ireland, plus two further species still under consideration - Hooded Merg...

RAINHAM MARSHES BIRDING - A TRUE DELIGHT

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PENDULINE TIT IMAGES (top two by Jeff Delve, then all others and two of adult CASPIAN GULL today taken by Woodford birder Sue Cowie) Spent...

Tuesday, 30 December 2008

HAMPSHIRE BIRDING TODAY

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Hampshire Images by Joe Stockwell (JSL Photography) The long-staying GREAT WHITE EGRET remains at Blashford Lakes HWT, ranging between Roc...

CONFIDING HAWFINCH ON CANNOCK CHASE FEEDERS (STAFFORDSHIRE)

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I went over to Cannock Chase (Staffordshire) today to photograph the birds at Freda's Grave feeders. From Cannock A34 to Brocton, turn r...

Monday, 29 December 2008

NEW CATTLE EGRET IN HAMPSHIRE

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A CATTLE EGRET was found in Selborne late yesterday afternoon. It is in a small field with a few horses and sheep on the left hand side at ...

Saturday, 27 December 2008

Monday, 22 December 2008

SNOWY OWL remains on Cornish Moor

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The juvenile SNOWY OWL (depicted here by Steve Rogers and A.McKechnie) remains in West Cornwall 3 miles WSW of St Ives and ESE of Zennor and...

RARE DUCKS LINGER IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

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This superb adult drake RED-BREASTED MERGANSER has been gracing Willen Lake South Basin since 16 December (images by Tim Watts) whilst the ...

ANOTHER GREENLAND REDPOLL

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This GREENLAND REDPOLL was photographed on Shetland in September 2008 (John Carter). Superficially, they are like a larger and longer-winge...

HORNEMANN'S ARCTIC REDPOLLS

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An array of HORNEMANN'S ARCTIC REDPOLL images from the Northern Isles in September-October 2008 From top to bottom - at Norwick, Unst (...

A TYPICAL (FIRST-WINTER) SCANDINAVIAN ARCTIC REDPOLL

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I present here (by kind courtesy of Josh Jones the photographer) a selection of images depicting what I consider to be a relatively standard...

A TYPICAL GREENLAND REDPOLL

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Greenland Redpoll, Bryher, Isles of Scilly, October 2006 (Jim Lawrence) This is a fairly typical example of a GREENLAND REDPOLL (rostrata)...

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About Me

Lee G R Evans: Amersham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom; I have been birding since 1969 but became obsessed with 'twitching' in 1974 and haven't looked back since. Have driven over 1.3 million miles in pursuit of rare birds in the UK, where to date I have recorded 588 species in Britain and Ireland. I also have a fascination for the Birds of the Western Palearctic, where I have currently recorded 880 of the 1,064 species ever recorded. I am widely travelled in North America, as well as in Africa and Asia, and have written at least 29 books on my chosen subject, including best-sellers ''Ultimate Site Guide to Scarcer British Birds' and 'Rare Birds in Britain 1800-1990'. Established the UK400 Club in 1981 to cater for the most obsessive of the British birding fraternity and now concentrate on online publishing, via the www.uk400clubonline.co.uk website. Record Birding achievements include recording 386 species in Britain & Ireland in 1996 and 627+ in the Western Palearctic in 2008

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