Local patch worker Barry Hunt discovered this stunning bird on Friday 11 November 2011 at Foreness Point, at the extreme east end of coastal North Kent. Foreness is reknown for attracting late vagrants and scarce migrants for the Continent, due to its location, and this particular bird was one of a fall of Black Redstarts [...]
On Monday 28 November, Mark Golley discovered a small calidrid at Cley NWT Reserve in North Norfolk. It was consorting with a large group of Dunlin and was showing, reasonably well, on mud visible from Bishop Hide, overlooking Pat’s Pool. With its dark ear coverts and numerous retained dark-centred and somewhat anchor-shaped scapular feathers, it [...]
The autumn of 2011 has been one of the best year’s ever for vagrant HUME’S LEAF WARBLERS Phylloscopus humei, in Britain with over 18 individuals recorded so far (see Appendix 2 for details). It is a species that breeds from the Altai Mountains to western Mongolia, south through Tien Shan and the Pamirs to NE [...]
EASTERN BLACK REDSTART in EAST KENT By Lee G R Evans & Jim Lawrence Local patch worker Barry Hunt discovered this stunning bird on Friday 11 November 2011 at Foreness Point, at the extreme east end of coastal North Kent. Foreness is renown for attracting late vagrants and scarce migrants for the Continent, due to [...]
THE SEPARATION OF WHITE AND PIED WAGTAILS By Lee G R Evans and Martin Cade Illustrated by Raymond Scally The White Wagtail Motacilla alba breeds widely across continental Europe and in Iceland and the Faroe Islands, whilst the Pied Wagtail Motacilla yarrelli breeds in Britain, Ireland, and locally on coasts of western continental Europe (in [...]