Friday, 23 September 2011

420 could be reached by October.......

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With the addition of GREY-CHEEKED THRUSH today from Fetlar (Shetland), the total number of species recorded in Britain and Ireland this year...

AZOREAN ATLANTIC-TYPE GULL still present

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FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBER STEWARTBY LAKE AND ENVIRONS (BEDFORDSHIRE) After obtaining reasonable views of the Atlantis-type gull in ploughed fields...
Thursday, 22 September 2011

AZOREAN GULL in BEDFORDSHIRE

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An adult AZOREAN-TYPE YELLOW-LEGGED GULL (Larus atlantis azorea) is present for its second day at Stewartby Lake in Bedfordshire. It flew i...

SANDHILL CRANE anniversary

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An apparent adult SANDHILL CRANE (see Joseph Nichols superb shot above), perhaps the bird of Orkney of two Septembers ago, appeared in front...
Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Images of LONG-TOED STINT

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Double click the link http://www.flickr.com/photos/sinlw/6169991460/in/photostream to view

A very very distant LONG-TOED STINT in SUSSEX

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Pete Johnson came upon a small stint at Weir Wood Reservoir last Thursday and immediately phoned Garry Bagnell, who happened to be out-of-co...
Tuesday, 20 September 2011

More American vagrants and another from the South or East

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Bob Flood walked into a BALTIMORE ORIOLE today as he ventured out on the Garrison on St Mary's. The bird, a first-winter female, was fr...

HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL in IRELAND

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In County Cork this morning, a HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL has been identified at Three Castles Head near Mizen Head............ On Scilly, although ...
Monday, 19 September 2011

The GREATER YELLOWLEGS

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Ewan Urquhart obtained these two images of last Tuesday's GREATER YELLOWLEGS on the Camel Estuary in Cornwall. This difficult bird stay...

Elusive WATERTHRUSH thwarts visiting twitchers

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On the Isles of Scilly, the NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH remains for its fourth day in Lower Moors, St Mary's, favouring the trackside vegetatio...

Further comments on the demise of Scilly Birding

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Visiting numbers of birders to the Isles of Scilly in autumn has been in freefall since probably the best-ever year in October 1999. That pa...
Sunday, 18 September 2011

The SCILLY blog

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To keep abreast of developments on Scilly this autumn and to review where and what is being seen, bookmark http://www.scilly-birding.co.uk/ ...
Saturday, 17 September 2011

Succession of Tropical Storms really starting to pay dividends..........

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The Isles of Scilly has been at the forefront of British Birding for a very long time and today showed glimmers of previous golden days........
Thursday, 15 September 2011

Escaped Azure Tit in Buckinghamshire

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An Azure Tit of presumably captive origin has been visiting a garden peanut feeder in Naphill hamlet, north of High Wycombe (Bucks) for thre...
Monday, 12 September 2011

in the aftermath of HURRICANE KATRIA

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The remnants of Hurricane Katria, now classified as a Tropical Storm or just under, battered Scotland and the north of Ireland with winds up...

GREATER YELLOWLEGS in West Cornwall

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After seeing Luke Dray's image on the Sussex Ornithological Society website and studying videos and images supplied by other Sussex bird...
Thursday, 8 September 2011

LEAST SANDPIPER in Hampshire

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A LEAST SANDPIPER was found on a private part of the Farlington Marsh reserve today by Jason Crook. Access will not be possible to this spec...
Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Pendeen Watchpoint scores again

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Following an abundance of Great Shearwaters seen off of Porthgwarra at the weekend (2,300 or more), with gale force SW winds switching to no...

PRODUCT REVIEW: Fair Isle Bird Report for 2008

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The 61st Fair Isle Report - that for 2008 - has just arrived at my desk. Like those for Shetland and Orkney, I always look forward to these ...
Monday, 5 September 2011

400 now passed..........

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First off, a belated record of a BLACKPOLL WARBLER from 2010 (trapped and ringed at Icklesham, East Sussex, in October) pushes that year...