Rarity finders: Red-tailed Shrike in East Yorkshire
Trevor Charlton's dedicated patch efforts paid off in style when he found an eighth for Britain.
06/07/2022
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Trevor Charlton's dedicated patch efforts paid off in style when he found an eighth for Britain.
06/07/2022
Prioritising scanning his local wader flock over making dinner had big consequences for Arlo Jacques, who found Ireland's first twitchable...
04/06/2022
A cracking find by John Higginson proved a landmark Scilly bird – for both the isles and the finder.
27/05/2022
Bob Dawson produced the first major find of spring when he came face to face with a fourth for Britain.
27/04/2022
A quick stop at an unsuspecting inland lake produced a stunning transatlantic mega for Robert Vaughan.
30/03/2022
Michael Clayton-Harding was in for a shock when his wife described an unusual bird that had visited their garden – fortunately it hung...
15/02/2022
A dog walk on her local beach took an astonishing twist for Clodagh Bannerman when she encountered a county first.
27/01/2022
Tom Wright was rewarded for his ringing efforts in superb fashion when he discovered a major Welsh rarity.
19/01/2022
Ian Grant was rewarded with an early Christmas present when he dug out a monster find on his inland patch.
12/01/2022
Rob Hughes discovered one of the birds of the year while working his Caithness patch one November morning, but frustratingly the mega in...
25/12/2021
Mike Sylvia's dedication to birding a windswept Irish island paid off with another mega rarity from across the Atlantic.
09/12/2021
A day of birding for Joe Seymour and Keith Boyer took on a whole new dimension following a shock discovery at Flamborough Head.
25/11/2021