130
chiffchaff overwintered at
St Austell, 50 at
Helston and 25 at
Countess Weir. All the sites were "old fashoned" sewage works where the micro climate and lush vegetation ensure plenty of insects through the winter[1]
A male
black lark at
South Stack,
Anglesey in June was initially thought to be Britain's first, and was seen by thousands of
birders; it subsequently transpired that an earlier record, also a male, from
Spurn, east
Yorkshire in 1984 had just recently been accepted by the
British Birds Rarities Committee, so making the South Stack bird Britain's second
A female
redhead on
Barra,
Outer Hebrides from September through until April 2004 was Britain's third (but the first female).
Britain's third
American coot occurred in
Shetland in November and stayed into 2004.
An unprecedented movement of
American robins in eastern North America on 8–9 November. Over 500,000 were recorded passing over
Cape May after a deep low pressure system swept migrants into the north east of the United States[1]
References
^
abBalmer, D. and Vickery, J. "Birds." In Branson, A. (2004) Wildlife Reports.
British Wildlife 15: 204–7
130
chiffchaff overwintered at
St Austell, 50 at
Helston and 25 at
Countess Weir. All the sites were "old fashoned" sewage works where the micro climate and lush vegetation ensure plenty of insects through the winter[1]
A male
black lark at
South Stack,
Anglesey in June was initially thought to be Britain's first, and was seen by thousands of
birders; it subsequently transpired that an earlier record, also a male, from
Spurn, east
Yorkshire in 1984 had just recently been accepted by the
British Birds Rarities Committee, so making the South Stack bird Britain's second
A female
redhead on
Barra,
Outer Hebrides from September through until April 2004 was Britain's third (but the first female).
Britain's third
American coot occurred in
Shetland in November and stayed into 2004.
An unprecedented movement of
American robins in eastern North America on 8–9 November. Over 500,000 were recorded passing over
Cape May after a deep low pressure system swept migrants into the north east of the United States[1]
References
^
abBalmer, D. and Vickery, J. "Birds." In Branson, A. (2004) Wildlife Reports.
British Wildlife 15: 204–7