Daily Rarity Roundup Sunday 25th August 2024 Mega seabirds provided the highlights again today with a South Polar Skua and a Fea's Petrel passing Porthgwarra, Cornwall, two Scopoli's Shearwaters at sea off the Isles of Scilly, and in Ireland a Fea's Petrel species and three

Daily Rarity Monday 26th August 2024 Discoveries today included a Black-headed Bunting on the Shetland Isles on Foula, a Gull-billed Tern on the Isles of Scilly on St Mary's this evening, and in Cornwall an Aquatic Warbler briefly at Pendeen and a Semipalmated Sandpiper at

Weekly birding round-up: 20 - 26 Aug Jon Dunn looks back at the week's best birds, with seabirds headlining this week. Read it here rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/wee…

Daily Rarity Roundup Tuesday 27th August 2024 Lingering rarities seen today included the Gull-billed Tern in Scilly, two Semipalmated Sandpipers in Cornwall, White-rumped Sandpipers in Norfolk and County Cork, Spotted Sandpiper in Pembrokeshire, Black-winged Stilt in

The first successful breeding record of Blyth's Reed Warbler in Britain is the headline from a bumper year for rare breeding birds in the Scottish Highlands. rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/Fir…

Daily Rarity Roundup Wednesday 28th August 2024 In Ireland the highlight of the day was a Citrine Wagtail new in County Wexford at Tacumshin, and another Scopoli's Shearwater idenitifed at Bridges of Ross, County Clare. In Britain Lingering rarities confirmed as still present

Daily Rarity Roundup Wed Thurs 29th A Barolo Shearwater flew past Bridges of Ross, County Clare and a Tawny Pipit flew over Easington, Yorkshire. Lingering rarities included the Stejneger's Scoter in Lothian, Canvasback in Essex, Lesser Scaup in Staffordshire, Gull-billed Tern

The Ghost Orchid has been rediscovered in Britain for the first time since 2009 and only the second time since the 1980s. rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/Bri…

Daily Rarity Roundup Fri 30th A pelagic trip off the Isles of Scilly produced another sighting of South Polar Skua this evening, south west of Bishop Rock, whilst the east coast saw a smart Stilt Sandpiper found at Beacon Ponds, Kilnsea, and on the Northern Isles a Great Snipe

Daily Rarity Roundup Sat 31st Today's easterly winds in southern England did not bring as much excitement as some had thought they might, but seawatching produced a White-billed Diver flying north up the Suffolk coast, with another past Fife Ness in Fife. The Hudsonian

East coast saltmarsh important for rapidly declining wader rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/Eas…

Daily Rarity Roundup Sun 1st The highlight of the day was a significant fall of drift migrants on the Engligh east coast including a Thrush Nightingale in Norfolk at Blakeney Point, and Greenish Warblers in Norfolk (Holme Dunes and Sea Palling), East Yorkshire (Flamborough

Inglorious 12th: Osprey shot on opening day of grouse shooting season rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/Ing…

Daily Rarity Monday 2nd September 2024 The highlight of the day was the reappearance of the dark morph Booted Eagle in Cornwall where it was seen briefly over Nanquidno. Elsewhere a Scopoli's Shearwater was at sea off the Isles of Scilly, a Thrush Nightingale was new on the

A bad day for Britain's seabirds as five species added to the UK Red List rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/Fiv…

Tuesday 3rd September 2024 New rarities today consisted of a White-rumped Sandpiper at Smerwick Harbour in County Kerry, Ferruginous Ducks at Stanford Reservoir in Northamptonshire and at Etton in Cambridgeshire, Greenish Warbler at Easington in East Yorkshire, White-billed

Daily Rarity Roundup Wednesday 4th September 2024 In Shetland an Arctic Warbler was found on Whalsay and a Blyth's Reed Warbler was found on Unst. A Scopoli's Shearwater flew past Kilcummin Head in County Mayo, a Pallid Harrier flew over Scaling Dam Reservoir in North Yorkshire

Daily Rarity Roundup Thursday 5th September 2024 A Wilson's Phalarope was found at Marshside, Merseyside mid afternoon, whilst a Blyth's Reed Warbler was at Holkham, Norfolk and a Greenish Warbler was at Kilnsea, Yorkshire. Lingering rarities included the Canvasback in Essex,