Monday, 1 November 2010

NORTH AMERICAN HEN HARRIER/MARSH HAWK in IRELAND - First Record

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The bird was first seen on Saturday by Tom Kilbane (and possibly by others, it has transpired since). Tom contacted me on Saturday night to ...

Nearctic Harrier in SW Ireland

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A juvenile NORTH AMERICAN HEN HARRIER (Circus hudsonius) (also known as Northern Harrier or Marsh Hawk) is present for a third day in Count...

The AMERICAN BITTERN in West Cornwall

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The American Bittern in flight and under concerted attack (Mark Stirland and Matt Deans - bottom) There has been no sign of the American Bit...
Thursday, 28 October 2010

AMERICAN BITTERN - additional information and guidance

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I just need to reiterate that there has been no question of suppression here. The bird in question was first seen by local farmers, then wal...

MEGA - AMERICAN BITTERN in West Cornwall

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A confiding bittern species which has been wandering about the grass and a small pool at Trewey Common for the past four days was photograph...
Wednesday, 27 October 2010

428 and counting but pace slows right down

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Since my last update, just four new species have occurred in Britain and Ireland -: PIED WHEATEAR (singles on North Ronaldsay and on St Mary...

SOCIABLE PLOVERS

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Follow the migrations of the SOCIABLE PLOVER - BirdLife International have proffered a task of supporting and protecting the highly endange...
Tuesday, 26 October 2010

An exceptional late COMMON CUCKOO in the New Forest, Hampshire

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Martin Bennett discovered and photographed this juvenile COMMON CUCKOO in the New Forest - a very late individual. The separation of this s...

Thousands upon thousands of BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS flocking to Britain

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Birdline Scotland featured an incredible 4,000 or more BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS yesterday evening, heralding one of the earliest and largest invas...
Monday, 25 October 2010

Record-breaking RED-FLANKED BLUETAILS

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Today saw the 30th RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL of the autumn appear - on Skomer Island in Pembrokeshire - smashing all previous annual totals of t...

BOHEMIAN WAXWING invasion

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Quite exceptional numbers (for late October) of BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS are pouring in to Scotland and northern Britain today leading to fears ov...

Seabird remains a mystery and fails to get intercepted

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Despite some excellent field drawings of the bird by Steve Abbott, we are no further along the line in identifying it. An albatross species ...

Unidentified mega seabird flies slowly north past Dunwich Cliffs, Suffolk

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Matt Deans, Steve Abbott, Nik Mason, Phil Whittaker and a few others have just watched a mega seabird fly slowly north past Dunwich Beach ca...
Wednesday, 20 October 2010

A premature end to the Autumn perhaps?

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Since my last update in early October, the total number of species recorded in a combined Britain and Ireland has risen to 424 - with the ad...
Thursday, 7 October 2010

AMERICAN GREEN HERON in Cornwall

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First seen yesterday morning, the (AMERICAN) GREEN HERON was still present today 4 miles SSW of Mevagissey at Pentewan at the Lost Gardens o...
Tuesday, 5 October 2010

How unlucky is that ?

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http://northronbirdobs.blogspot.com/ When Mark Warren wandered out in the field early on 2 October, little did he expect to stumble on a se...

MYRTLE WARBLER in County Cork perhaps heralds arrival of Nearctic birds

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The juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER at Abberton Reservoir and the juvenile BAIKAL TEAL at nearby Chigborough Lakes EWT that remained for jus...
Friday, 1 October 2010

ALDER FLYCATCHER - second record

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North American expert Peter Pyle very kindly reviewed the Blakeney Point empidonax flycatcher record for me and the UK400 Club Advisory Comm...
Thursday, 30 September 2010

NO BADGER CULL

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We must stop this government engaging in yet another damaging BADGER cull. The RSPCA are working flat out to oppose this operation - check o...

Exciting Weather System Approaching the UK

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The Shetland and Orkney islands look set to take a major landfall of both vagrant and more regular passage migrants, whilst the entire East ...