Here’s a small selection of more recent rarities that I’ve seen since I began digiscoping in 2003….
BELTED KINGFISHER – 2005, dipped it in Staffordshire and Yorkshire, but caught up with it at Peterculter near Aberdeen.
CREAM-COLOURED COURSER – Scillies, 2004
LESSER SAND PLOVER – Aberlady Bay, 2004
MASKED SHRIKE – Fife, 2004
SOCIABLE PLOVER – Scillies, 2008
BROWN SHRIKE – Surrey, 2009
COLLARED FLYCATCHER – Fife, 2009
WHITE-TAILED PLOVER – Caerlaverock, 2007 – if only all mega’s were this close!
RED-EYED VIREO – Land’s End, 2008
SOOTY TERN – Anglesey, 2005
GREY-CHEEKED THRUSH – Scillies, 2008 (same day as OBP, Bobolink and Bluetail)…
EASTERN CROWNED WARBLER – South Shields, 2009
SORA – Nottinghamshire, 2004
SNOWY OWL – Lewis, 2007
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW – Norfolk, 2008
ROSS’S GULL – Lancashire, 2008
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER – Cleveland, 2007 – one of my favourite birds
LITTLE CRAKE – Slimbridge, 2005
BUFF-BELLIED PIPIT – Oxfordshire, 2007
SPOTTED SANDPIPER – Cornwall, 2006
HAWK OWL – Sweden, 2005 – an unforgettable day twitch for Siberian Tit and this beauty – and all for a tenner!!!…
