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

Sunday, 12 June 2011

WHITE-WINGED SCOTER showing this evening

The first-year drake NORTH AMERICAN WHITE-WINGED SCOTER is still present this evening, about 400 yards offshore and diving on its own betwe...

More information on the Aberdeen scoter

Link Martin Garner's website here http://birdingfrontiers.com/

Putative AMERICAN WHITE-WINGED SCOTER

Chris Gibbins obtained these distant shots of the scoter off Blackdog, Aberdeen, yesterday - according to observers, very distinctive in the...

More news coming in on the AMERICAN WHITE-WINGED SCOTER

There is a very good candidate for a White-winged Scoter (Melanitta deglandi), on the sea off Blackdog, north of Aberdeen. The bird was foun...

Breaking News - putative Nearctic Scoter off Aberdeenshire

An apparent AMERICAN WHITE-WINGED SCOTER is offshore with other scoters at Blackdog Rocks, just north of Aberdeen (Aberdeenshire) (initially...

Friday, 10 June 2011

What a stunning set of images - MIKE LAWRENCE'S impressive efforts

Some exceptional new shots are arriving of Hartlepool's star performer - none quite so impressive as Bedfordshire photographer Mike Lawr...

Rare Robin continues to hang in there

Hartlepool Headland's news-hugging first-summer WHITE-THROATED ROBIN is still present this morning despite going missing after late mor...

Thursday, 9 June 2011

Please help the MONK PARAKEET and please DO NOT DIVULGE LOCATIONS of last few surviving RUDDY DUCKS

Please help save our region's Monk Parakeets Last night, I was given the devastating news that Defra had shot and killed 8 of Borehamwoo...

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Disgraceful deceit by Defra in relation to MONK PARAKEET slaying

Borehamwood residents have forced Defra in admitting that they have shot and Killed 8 Monk Parakeets - in total contradiction to what was ag...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

White-throated Robin running the gauntlett of the highway (Steve Clifton) In Cleveland, the first-summer WHITE-THROATED ROBIN trapped and ri...

WHITE-THROATED ROBIN in Cleveland

The yellow pin marks the location of the Bowling Green at Hartlepool Headland. The inner bowling green is that on the opposite side of the r...

Friday, 3 June 2011

UK Common Swift Survey - please participate

The new Swift Inventory website has now gone live, so please send in your records: http://www.rspb.org.uk/applications/swiftsurvey/ Any reco...

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

HEDGEHOGS in steep decline in UK

In addition to the stark dilemma birds such as Turtle Dove, Common Cuckoo, Corn Bunting, Grey Partridge, Tree Sparrow, Yellowhammer, Skylark...

And we are now into JUNE............

For regular updates and more localised rare bird news, bookmark the British Bird Association website at http://rarebirdsinbritain.blogspot.c...

Thursday, 26 May 2011

An outstanding service - Repairs and Servicing of Binoculars and Telescopes

Tony Kay senior has been repairing telescopes and binoculars for over 50 years now and is a true professional and expert in his field. Follo...

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

RSPB support capture but NOT culling of non-naturalised MONK PARAKEETS

http://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk/news/localnews/8994379.Invasive_parakeets_could_be_culled/ http://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk/news/9037618....

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Defra now targeting MONK PARAKEET population

I have recently been informed that Defra have obtained permits allowing them to eradicate free-flying Monk Parakeets in Britain (of which I ...

More attrocities committed in Malta - WHITE STORKS mercilessly slaughtered

See http://focusingonwildlife.com/white-storks-hunted-down.html

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

An unprecedented influx of GREAT SNIPES in SPAIN

An unprecedented influx of GREAT SNIPES has taken place in Spain in the past week with one site hosting no fewer than eight individuals (see...

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Vagrant CREEPER heralds the approaching spring migration

Chris Darby's spectacular shot at the top, followed by Paul Oldfield's in-hand shot and Lee Wood's excellent images this evening...

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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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