Rarity finders: Iberian Wagtail in Cheshire
Stan Davidson's long-term patching efforts ultimately paid off with a potential second for Britain.
29/04/2019
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Stan Davidson's long-term patching efforts ultimately paid off with a potential second for Britain.
29/04/2019
Toby Phelps and Matt Doyle took a short break from university work to go seawatching during Storm Erik and, incredibly, connected with a...
15/02/2019
December may not be considered prime time to find rarities, but Tony White's trip to the Anglesey coast nonetheless produced a major...
20/12/2018
Shetland has the ability to produce extreme rarities at any time of year, as Brian Marshall demonstrated when he came cross an ultra-rare...
18/12/2018
Sam Viles was seeking Pallid Swifts when he visited Hartlepool Headland on 11 November but, thanks to his girlfriend's superior optics, he...
21/11/2018
Stuart Rivers had always hoped to find a North American oriole on his beloved island of Barra and, after almost three weeks of hard graft...
30/10/2018
When Lesley Catherine Ball found an unusual swift at Hornsea Mere, it kicked off a chain of events that culminated in a cohesive team of...
19/10/2018
When Tim Davis and Tim Jones glimpsed a bright Phylloscopus, they were delighted to have found what they thought was a Greenish Warbler....
12/10/2018
After a spell of westerly gales, Chris Turner, Michael McKee and Pete Forrest scored heavily with Foula's second White-crowned Sparrow in...
08/10/2018
On the back of westerly winds, John Lowrie Irvine wasn't expecting to find a Critically Endangered Siberian bunting on his home isle.
26/09/2018
Geoff and Donna Atherton were thrilled to clinch their second North American sparrow on Foula within the space of a year.
10/09/2018
Andy Deighton's momentous discovery of an ultra-rare coastal-dwelling gull in the centre of Sheffield goes to show that anything is...
23/07/2018