Rarity finders: East Siberian Wagtail in Shetland
Mark and Linda Sutton were left stunned when they came across a first for Britain while taking a sandwich stop on the last day of their...
05/11/2020
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Mark and Linda Sutton were left stunned when they came across a first for Britain while taking a sandwich stop on the last day of their...
05/11/2020
A trip to see a Great Grey Shrike turned into something far more unusual for Andrew Moon.
29/10/2020
Sylvain Reyt and Sébastien Roques' persistence with an unusual shearwater paid off with what they believed to be a first for France –...
25/10/2020
Harry Richardson took full advantage of promising weather conditions on the east coast to find a mega-rare Siberian vagrant at his local...
23/10/2020
A sharp eye and the help of an old friend provided Stephen Addinall with a fourth for Britain at one of his local sites.
15/10/2020
Andy Wilkes was left stunned when a nightjar-like bird that flew in off the sea at his patch transpired to be a freshly arrived vagrant...
09/10/2020
Perseverance with an elusive Phylloscopus warbler brought Ross Ahmed one of his best finds to date in a less well-watched area of his patch.
08/10/2020
Warden Dean Jones was stunned to find an exhausted American crake in scrub where he'd stopped to look for migrant passerines.
03/10/2020
John Bowler sums up the ecstasy of coming face to face with a new British and Western Palearctic species in his own garden.
25/09/2020
Mick Davis details a brief encounter with a perplexing falcon on his Norfolk patch, which later whipped up a Twitter storm as it transpired...
25/08/2020
The famous Scilly Pelagics scored heavily again at the end of July, this time with a much-anticipated addition to the British list. Finder...
04/08/2020
Niall Hatch couldn't believe his eyes when he found Ireland's third Brown Booby – and the first twitchable – in his home town.
20/07/2020