Holiday and Trip Reports

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05/09/2026 RSPB Freiston Shore Nature Reserve, Lincolnshire

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Wyneck: Toady I was up early carrying out a GCN pit fall trapping survey and resuing toads of which afterwards I decided to drive over to Li...

30/08/2026 Kingsbury Water Park, Warwickshire

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Red-necked Phalarope:  The August Bank Holiday weekend is usually a time for relaxing, but for Midwest and Warwickshire birdwatchers, it tur...

30/08/2026 Eastleach Martin, Gloucestershire

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Long-tailed Shrike:  They say you should never go back. In birding, returning to a mega-rarity you’ve already ticked can feel like a gamble....

9/08/2026 Coquet Island, Northumberland,

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Sooty Tern:  The UK birding community is no stranger to summer surprises, but August 2026 delivered a twitch that that will live on in my mi...

29/08/2026 The Great Orme, Llandudno

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Dotterel: There is a very special visitor spending time on the rocky cliffs of North Wales right now, and it is causing quite a stir in the ...

08/07/2026 Crail in Fife, Scotland

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Long-tailed Shrike:  Is this the ultimate prize for UK twitchers? This fierce, predatory songbird is native to South and Central Asia, makin...

07/06/2026 Caernarfon Harbour, Gwynedd, Wales

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Western Reef Heron:  Twitching history was officially made this weekend.  On Saturday, 6 June 2026, the British birding community was sent i...

18/04/2026 Hardwick Hall Country Park, Durham

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Iberian Chiffchaff: When Kris got in touch saying he was keen to life tick this rare annual vagrant I couldn't resist Only recently sep...

08/03/2026 Blyth South Harbour, Blyth, Northumberland

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White-billed Diver: My third white-billed diver (WBD), and the best one I've seen so far, the one that came the closest and showed the b...

28/01/2026 Newlyn Harbour, Cornwallhave not

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Ross's Gull: A round trip to Cornwall, there and back in a day with Kris for company to see this gull. I know gulls evoke a wide spectr...