Black-winged Kite - ©Sean Nixon. This image was taken at Colne Point, Essex in July 2023.
A 1st summer female Red-winged Blackbird - ©Steven Nuttall. North Ronaldsay, Orkney in May 2017.
APRIL: First Records! 🥇
There were twenty-two (22) accepted first records logged this month... 😃
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Bonaparte's Gull
Canvasback
Western Bonelli's Warbler
APRIL 1st: 🧾
Some 346 species/ subspecies were 'reported' in the UK by the end of March 2026. 😃
Highlights included:
Lesser Scaup, Bonaparte's Gull, WB Warbler, Iberian Chiffchaff, Black Kite, Fudge Duck, Ross's Gull, Tengmalm's Owl, Canvasback & BB Albatross. 😉
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A male Ashy-headed Wagtail in Cornwall at Porth Hellick, St Mary's, Isles-of-Scilly in 2021 - ©Martin Goodey, many thanks. 👍🏻
A 1st summer male Belted Kingfisher in Aberdeenshire at Peterculter in 2005 - ©Darren Robson, many thanks. 👍🏻
A 1st summer male Belted Kingfisher in Staffordshire at Tixall in 2005 - ©Stuart Piner, many thanks. 👍🏻
April 1st: 🧾
Good morning! 🖐🏻👋🏻
There were twenty-five (25) accepted records on this day... 😃
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Fabulous but all-too-brief views of this rather elusive North American Bonaparte's Gull in Lerwick, Shetland today.
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Causeway at Warwash, Lower Hamble, Bunny Meadows nature reserve Hampshire site of American Golden Plover 31/3/26
Bunny Meadows, Warwash: American Golden Plover [very considerate to hang out with Grey Plovers so no need for hours sorting thru European Golden Plovers 😅 at ///spindles.campsites.rumbles ] also Spotted Redshank, 2 Greenshank still 51 Brent Geese on Lower Hamble #RareBirdsUK #HantsBirds #ukbirding 🪶
One of three Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Norfolk at Felthorpe in 2018 - ©James Lowen, many thanks. 👍🏻
A male Pallid Harrier in Surrey along Newark Lane, Ripley in 2013 - ©Veronica Hill, many thanks. 👍🏻
A male White-spotted Bluethroat in E. Sussex at Charleston in 2022 - ©Terry Hallahan, many thanks. 👍🏻
March 31st: 🧾
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There were twenty-eight (28) accepted records on this day... 😃
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Another waffle and scribble fest has just been launched into cyberspace. You know you can't resist!
Go to collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 to find out more.
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An adult Black-browed Albatross in N. Yorkshire from Bempton Cliffs in 2022 - ©Tony Dixon, many thanks. 👍🏻
A 2nd winter Forster's Tern in Dorset in the Arne/ Brownsea Island/ Holes/ Lytchett Bay area in 2024 - ©Mark Leitch, many thanks. 👍🏻
A 1st winter male Two-barred Crossbill in Greater Manchester at Dovestone, near Greenfield in 2014 - ©Michael Malpass, many thanks. 👍🏻
March 30th: 🧾
Good morning! 🖐🏻👋🏻
There were twenty-two (22) accepted records on this day... 😃
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March 29th: UK FIRST RECORDS: 🥇
LITTLE CRAKE
Zapornia parva
One was obtained at Catsfield, E. Sussex on March 29th 1791.
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An adult male Bufflehead in Perthshire on Loch Leven in 2024 - ©Mark Leitch, many thanks. 👍🏻
An adult drake Blue-winged Teal in Somerset on Steart Marshes in 2021 - ©Brian Hill, many thanks. 👍🏻
A female Desert Wheatear in Dorset at Lodmoor in 2021 - ©John Wall, many thanks. 👍🏻
March 29th: 🧾
Good morning! 🖐🏻👋🏻
There were nineteen (19) accepted records including one UK first on this day... 😃
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Killdeer in Norfolk at Breydon Water in 2005 - ©Kit Day, many thanks. 👍🏻
An adult male Lesser Kestrel in Suffolk on Westleton Heath in 2010 - ©Nick Appleton, many thanks. 👍🏻
A male Zitting Cisticola in Kent at St Margaret's at Cliffe in 2010 - ©Jamie Partridge, many thanks. 👍🏻
March 28th: 🧾
Good morning! 🖐🏻👋🏻
There were fifteen (15) accepted records on this day... 😃
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"Paradoxus" 1w male Eastern Black Redstart, taken on Christmas Eve amongst the flower beds beside the prom at Sheringham.
EBR poop collected by me on the 1st day of what turned out to be a grand stay at the seaside from this extremely long-range vagrant... Last November's Spurn bird came back with a very similar sequence, aligning it with the same sub-specific grouping (and, likely, natal areas).
There's a few thousand miles, closer to 4000 than 3000 I guess (in a straight line) Tuva Republic (in southern Siberia) to Sheringham. Even the western end of China will be well beyond 3000 miles east of the Norfolk seaside town... Vagrancy really is spectacular.
The DNA results are in!
Sheringham's superstar visitor, the pardoxus 1w ♂️ Eastern Black Redstart was (as expected) consistent w/ P.o.phoenicuroides/murinus & a near-identical sequence to birds from west/central China/Tuva Republic.
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Stejneger’s Scoter back at East Wemyss (‘though light a bit pants at the mo) and White-winged Scoter still at Innerleven #birdingFife #rarebirdsUK
RUDDY DUCK Oxyura jamaicensis jamaicensis No longer self-sustaining moved to C6E*
KELP GULL Larus dominicanus vetula Colloquially known as Cape Gull and confirmed as 'vetula'
PIED CROW Corvus albus Remains in Category E
March 27th: CHANGES TO THE BRITISH LIST: 🆕
RUDDY DUCK
KELP GULL
PIED CROW
See ALT for details
For a full explanation go to...
bou.org.uk/british-list...
The British List remains at 636 (A = 619; B = 7; C = 10).
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An adult Ross's Goose in Highland at Lieurary in 2022 - ©Rob Hughes, many thanks. 👍🏻
A female Two-barred Crossbill in Bedfordshire at The Lodge, Sandy in 2010 - ©Mike Lawrence, many thanks. 👍🏻
An adult Thayer's Gull in Suffolk at Minsmere in 2016 - ©Brian Small, many thanks. 👍🏻
March 27th: 🧾
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There were twenty-one (21) accepted records on this day... 😃
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©Unknown.🤷🏻♂️
March 26th: UK FIRST RECORDS: 🥇
EVENING GROSBEAK
Hesperiphona vespertina
An adult male was found on St Kilda, Western Isles on March 26th 1969.
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Evening Grosbeak - ©Unknown. 🤷🏻♂️
©Unknown. 🤷🏻♂️
March 26th: 🧾
Good morning! 🖐🏻👋🏻
There were twenty-two (22) accepted records on this day... 😃
No photos' available for today's posting so here's a few gratuitous Evening Grosbeak shots for you to enjoy.... 😊
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A 1st winter female Black-throated Thrush in E. Yorkshire at Buckton in 2007 - ©Mark Whiffin, many thanks. 👍🏻
An adult female Coues's Arctic redpoll in Moray in the Ordiequish Forest in 2018 - ©Alastair Young, many thanks. 👍🏻
A male Iberian Chiffchaff in S. Gloucestershire in Kingsgate Park, Yate in 2017.
March 25th: 🧾
Good morning! 🖐🏻👋🏻
There were twenty-two (22) accepted records on this day... 😃
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An adult male Bufflehead in Aberdeenshire on Sand Loch, Collieston in 2024 - ©Ron Macdonald, many thanks. 👍🏻
A 1st summer Great Spotted Cuckoo in Suffolk on Easton Farm, Southwold in 2023 - ©Jake Gearty, many thanks. 👍🏻
Scops Owl in Cornwall at Porthgwarra in 2002 - ©Nick Stampford, many thanks. 👍🏻
March 24th: 🧾
Good morning! 🖐🏻👋🏻
There were eighteen (18) accepted records on this day... 😃
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Pallid Harrier
One of my more acceptable record shots of the Pallid Harrier down on Llanrhidian Marsh, diving in for the kill on Saturday afternoon. #birdingWales #UKWildlife #birdsSeenIn2026 #birds #rareBirdsUK @birdsinwales.bsky.social @gowerbirds.bsky.social
An adult male Lesser Kestrel in Cornwall on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly in 2023 - ©Ashley Fisher, many thanks. 👍🏻
An adult female Snowy Owl on the Western Isles at Hirta, St Kilda in 2021 - ©Unknown.... 🤷🏻♂️
March 23rd: 🧾
Good morning! 🖐🏻👋🏻
There were twenty (20) accepted records on this day... 😃
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Another 'new species account' has been uploaded to my Confessions of a Lapsed Birder blog.
It relates to a Gull-billed Tern seen in far off July 1996 / far off South or South-west Wales.
collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0
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A 1st summer Great Spotted Cuckoo in Cornwall: near Crows-an-Wra in 2009 - ©Phil Woollen, many thanks. 👍🏻
An adult drake King Eider in Highland on Loch Fleet in 2022 - ©Dean MacAskill, many thanks. 👍🏻
March 22nd: 🧾
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There were twenty-two (22) accepted records on this day... 😃
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Second time lucky with the Bonaparte's Gull at Blaxton Meadow this morning. Another very nice addition to my Devon List #UKBirding #RareBirdsUK #DevonBirds
A 1st winter male Desert Wheatear in Cornwall on the Isles of Scilly at Porth Askin, St Agnes in 2015 - ©Martin Goodey, many thanks. 👍🏻
An adult Great Spotted Cuckoo on the Isle of Wight at Wheelers Bay in 2019 - ©Nick Edwards, many thanks. 👍🏻
A female Kentish Plover in S. Devon at Dawlish Warren in 2020 - ©Steph Murphy, many thanks. 👍🏻
March 21st: 🧾
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There were sixteen (16) accepted records and on this day... 😃
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A 1st winter male Black-throated Thrush in Northumberland at Prestwick Carr in 2017 - ©Alan Curry, many thanks. 👍🏻
A 1st winter male Desert Wheatear in W. Sussex at Goring-by-Sea in 2022 - ©David Campbell, many thanks. 👍🏻
March 20th: 🧾
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There were eighteen (18) accepted records and on this day... 😃
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A adult drake Bufflehead in Clyde on Carbeth Loch in 2024 - ©Mark Leitch, many thanks. 👍🏻
March 18th: 🧾
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There were thirteen (13) accepted records and on this day... 😃
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The male Stejneger’s Scoter showing reasonably well from the sea wall by East Fife Football Stadium, Methill #birdingFife #rarebirdsUK
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