Syke's Warbler. 16 years ago. Coastal Northumberland has been kind down the years. This was defo one of the best though. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

I saw a Sora. Read all about it. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Squacco, squacco, squacco. See what I did there? Well, just two actually - but one for my British list and one for my Scottish list, so the job's a good 'un. 👍🏻 Read all about it at: collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Wilson's Storm-petrel, seen during a Scillonian Pelagic a third of a century ago. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

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Bit late, but at least these 'new species account' blog posts will undoubtedly continue to out pace new ticks. Forster's Tern - yonks ago. Probably the very best example of the very same bird seen in two widely separate places. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Always good to see a good bird in Scotland, and all the better when it's really easy, in a cracking location, and on a cracking day, and you bump into Andy Williams and Al McNee. @pelagicbirder.bsky.social

Apologies for the interlude between posts. I went on a dirty twitch last week... 😚. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Pallid Swift at Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire in October 1999 fitted around my burgeoning husband and father and work commitments.... collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

If for no other reason than the one at Kirkcaldy just now has given itself up and is flaunting itself at really close ranges, here's another account relating to a rather less helpful White-winged Scoter in June 2016. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

A tad belated, as I was on the Isle of May last week. Lesser Grey Shrike from August 1989. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Perversely, I managed to see Oriental Pratincole before I'd seen either of the other two. Read all about it. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Purple Swampthing, or whatever we are now meant to call it. How is that coming up 10 years ago??? collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Parrot Crossbill. Absolute brutes. #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0

Spectacled Warbler. No, not Elizabeth Fraser, but the first for Britain that turned up at Filey in late May 1992. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Two for the price of one; very often, the large shearwaters have been interlinked in my birding career, so why not? collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKRares

I once went all the way to Nottinghamshire to see a Redhead. ...... there's no punchline. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #uKbirding

Another waffle and scribble fest has just been launched into cyberspace. You know you can't resist! Go to collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 to find out more. #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Another 'new species account' has been uploaded to my Confessions of a Lapsed Birder blog. It relates to a Gull-billed Tern seen in far off July 1996 / far off South or South-west Wales. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

A tale of a very successful twitch, all the more so as happenstance meant I was already on the road when news broke. 😊 collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Pallid Harrier, Elmley RSPB Reserve, Sheppey, 15th August 2002. Not necessarily this instance due to the vews involved, but certainly one of the best birds I've seen in a subsequent one. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Another. Western Orphean Warbler. In spring 2012 Hartlepool Headland excelled itself for the second spring running.... . collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKBirds #rarebirds #UKbirding

American Redstart. A complete bonus from September 2017. #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirds collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0

No pics, in part as they were a zillion miles away, but very pleased to join the extremely elite, "I've got White-billed Diver on my house list" crew by persisting scanning the part of the Firth of Forth where 3 were reported around about my vigil until very slowly I got all three. Very happy.

Here you go. A goodie from September 2020. Two-barred Greenish Warbler. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Tibetan Sand Plover, or Lesser Sand Plover as it was pre-decimalisation, or whatever...... . An epic twitch. Read on. #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding collapsedbirder.blogspot.com

Here you go (again). Just maybe, sometimes the way to go is just to use the original notebook sketch....? collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Another! American Herring Gull. Just maybe sometimes using the original notebook sketch might be the way to go. #UKRares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0

Here you go. I need to get back to regular postings, but another 'new species account' this time from 'just' 25 years ago. 🙄 collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0 #UKrares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

So. It's been WAY too long; all I have posted of late has been excuses such like the one I posted (but never 'flagged') about 7 days ago. It includes an update on what I have been doing, plus a reference to an extinct bird I saw eons ago, and a notebook sketch. collapsedbirder.blogspot.com?m=0