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

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...
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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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