RECORDS FOR SEPTEMBER 2nd:

Records For September 2nd - 42: Details of the most recently accepted:

Alpine Swift    1980:    Yorkshire: Hornsea Mere.
Aquatic Warbler    1975:    Kent: Dungeness.

Arctic Warbler    2006:    Shetland: Foula.

Baillon's Crake    1894:    E. Sussex: near Ditchling Road, Brighton.

Black Kite    2004:    Isle of Wight: Headon Warren.

Blue-winged Teal    1995:    Somerset: Chew Valley Lake, female.

Bonaparte's Gull    2024:    Argyll & Bute: Garmony, Mull, adult.

Booted Warbler    2005:    Shetland: Easter Quarff.

Brown Booby    2019:    At sea: Sea area Lundy, c.40km north-west of Cape Cornwall.

Caspian Tern    1989:    Yorkshire: Brandesburton, adult.

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler    2011:    Shetland: Taft/ Schoolton, Fair Isle, 1st winter.

Franklin's Gull    2004:    Cheshire: Elton Hall Flash, Sandbach, adult.

Glossy Ibis    2012:    Lancashire: Hesketh Out Marsh.

Great Reed Warbler    1971:    Dorset: Radipole, Weymouth.

Great Snipe    2022:    Shetland: Walli Burn, Fair Isle.

Greenish Warbler    2000:    Yorkshire: Flamborough Head.

Gull-billed Tern    1967:    Norfolk: Bacton Gap, Mundesley, adult.

Laughing Gull    1988:    Somerset: Burnham-on-Sea, 2nd winter.

Least Sandpiper    1972:    Glamorgan: Aberthaw.

Lesser Grey Shrike    2005:    Yorkshire: Spurn, 1st winter.

Lesser Yellowlegs    2012:    Cornwall: Kingsmill, Tamar Estuary, juvenile.

Little Bittern    1918:    Kent: near Wateringbury.

Nutcracker    1968:    Essex: West Mersea.

Pallid Harrier    2020:    Isle of Wight: Brading Marsh, juvenile.

Pallid Harrier - Mark Buckley

Red-rumped Swallow    1997:    E. Sussex: Pagham Harbour.

Roller    1901:    Norfolk: Great Yarmouth.

Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin    1963:    Lincolnshire: Butlin's, Skegness, adult male.

Scopoli's Shearwater    2024:    At sea: Sea area Sole, off the Isles of Scilly.

Scops Owl    1891:    Aberdeenshire: near Kintore, female.

Semipalmated Sandpiper    2024:    Western Isles: Orosay, South Uist, juvenile.

Tawny Pipit    1981:    Dorset: Portland Bill.

Thrush Nightingale     2024:    Shetland: Burkle, Fair Isle, 1st winter.

Two-barred Crossbill    2019:    Shetland: Baltasound, Unst, juvenile.

Two-barred Crossbill - Brydon Thomason

Upland Sandpiper    1996:    Shetland: Foula.

Western Bonelli's Warbler    2005:    E. Sussex: Beachy Head.

White-winged Black Tern    1999:    Argyll & Bute: Balaphetrish, Tiree, adult.

Wilson's Petrel    2001:    At  sea: Sea area Sole, c.16km south of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.

Wilson's Phalarope    2009:    Devon: Bowling Green Marsh/ Exminster Marsh, 1st winter.

Yellow-breasted Bunting    2000:    Shetland: Skelberry, female/ juvenile male.

SUBSPECIES/ UNDERTERMINED

Dowitcher Ssp    1891:    Argyll & Bute: near Crinan.

Subalpine Warbler Ssp    2003:    Cornwall: Predannack Airfield, The Lizard, male.

Every effort is made to use a photograph of the bird in question and the records listed above cover the period up to the end of 2024.