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Cirl Buntings, Prawle Point

A wind-blown male was delivering from the top of a bush and made my 294th British species [...]

Slavonian Grebe, Loch Fyne

A nice year tick, and new for Argyll [...]

Water Pipit, Portishead

Two obvious wing bars were the first field mark to rouse suspicions [...]

Bearded Tit, RSPB Minsmere

The bird isn’t a tit though. It’s near, but in a separate family – its own family moreover. [...]

Adelaide Aliens & Listing, 2008

Since the mid-1970s shooters and trappers have had to stop the advance of our starling into the west [...]

An Urban Merlin (or Two)

I trust my snap identification, on the whole. So, merlin goes on the Bristol list. [...]

White-rumped Sandpiper, Steart

It was easy enough to tell from a dunlin that kept it company once I’d picked both birds up [...]

WWT Llanelli

Many redshanks also held a number of black-tailed godwits, several greenshanks and one spotted redshank [...]

Hen Harrier, Ystradfellte

The course of Avon Llia was pretty enough for a Forestry Commission plantation, thanks to the stream itself [...]