Brian Minshull
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Carrier of various crosses...... birding, Burnley FC, daughters, etc.. Ecological consultant at the latter end of my career maybes...
American ('née' Buff-bellied) Pipit. From almost 30 years ago, and also (as updated) last week.
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September 27, 2026 at 4:26 PM
American ('née' Buff-bellied) Pipit. From almost 30 years ago, and also (as updated) last week.
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Here you go, Short-billed Dowitcher, as:
1. One was seen very briefly last week; and,
2. It's now exactly 27 years since the first, as described here.
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1. One was seen very briefly last week; and,
2. It's now exactly 27 years since the first, as described here.
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September 22, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Here you go, Short-billed Dowitcher, as:
1. One was seen very briefly last week; and,
2. It's now exactly 27 years since the first, as described here.
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1. One was seen very briefly last week; and,
2. It's now exactly 27 years since the first, as described here.
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Flattered. My account on my Confessions of a Lapsed Birder blog is cited in the 'New to Britain' account in the latest BB (regarding the estimated number who connected).
Can't recollect my source; hopefully as accurate as LGRE.. 🤪
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Flattered. My account on my Confessions of a Lapsed Birder blog is cited in the 'New to Britain' account in the latest BB (regarding the estimated number who connected).
Can't recollect my source; hopefully as accurate as LGRE.. 🤪
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Least Bittern in Shetland: new to Britain
A Least Bittern Botaurus exilis was discovered at Scousburgh, Mainland, Shetland, on 7th October 2022. The bird was exhausted and allowed...
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September 15, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Flattered. My account on my Confessions of a Lapsed Birder blog is cited in the 'New to Britain' account in the latest BB (regarding the estimated number who connected).
Can't recollect my source; hopefully as accurate as LGRE.. 🤪
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Flattered. My account on my Confessions of a Lapsed Birder blog is cited in the 'New to Britain' account in the latest BB (regarding the estimated number who connected).
Can't recollect my source; hopefully as accurate as LGRE.. 🤪
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I give you the relatively recent Northern Waterthrush saga.
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September 13, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I give you the relatively recent Northern Waterthrush saga.
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Effectively Part 2 of my recent double header twitch to East Anglia, involving Zitting Cisticola.
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August 30, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Effectively Part 2 of my recent double header twitch to East Anglia, involving Zitting Cisticola.
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August 27, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Not yet properly illustrated (here's one i did earlier) but Back-winged Kite. Read all about it. 😊
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August 26, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Not yet properly illustrated (here's one i did earlier) but Back-winged Kite. Read all about it. 😊
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Given recent events, White-throated Sparrow, from 1993, updated with recent events on the Isle of May.
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August 14, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Given recent events, White-throated Sparrow, from 1993, updated with recent events on the Isle of May.
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Atypically, I'd got a backlog of such blogposts just now. I had this one 'in prep', but, for obvious reasons, I revisited that for White-throated Sparrow. Anyway, here's the usual nonsense regarding Red-breasted Goose.
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Confessions of a lapsed birder
Red-breasted Goose – Caerlaverock Wildfowl and Wetlands Reserve , Caerlaverock, Dumfries and Galloway, 6 th October 1991 Sunday the 6th ...
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August 12, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Atypically, I'd got a backlog of such blogposts just now. I had this one 'in prep', but, for obvious reasons, I revisited that for White-throated Sparrow. Anyway, here's the usual nonsense regarding Red-breasted Goose.
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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
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August 2, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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
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July 28, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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. 👍🏻
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Read all about it at:
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July 18, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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:
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Read all about it at:
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Wilson's Storm-petrel, seen during a Scillonian Pelagic a third of a century ago.
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July 11, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Wilson's Storm-petrel, seen during a Scillonian Pelagic a third of a century ago.
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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.
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Forster's Tern - yonks ago.
Probably the very best example of the very same bird seen in two widely separate places.
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June 29, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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.
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Forster's Tern - yonks ago.
Probably the very best example of the very same bird seen in two widely separate places.
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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
June 27, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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... 😚.
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June 18, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Apologies for the interlude between posts. I went on a dirty twitch last week... 😚.
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Pallid Swift at Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire in October 1999 fitted around my burgeoning husband and father and work commitments....
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June 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Pallid Swift at Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire in October 1999 fitted around my burgeoning husband and father and work commitments....
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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.
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May 31, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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.
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A tad belated, as I was on the Isle of May last week. Lesser Grey Shrike from August 1989.
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May 24, 2026 at 6:41 PM
A tad belated, as I was on the Isle of May last week. Lesser Grey Shrike from August 1989.
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Perversely, I managed to see Oriental Pratincole before I'd seen either of the other two. Read all about it.
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May 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Perversely, I managed to see Oriental Pratincole before I'd seen either of the other two. Read all about it.
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Purple Swampthing, or whatever we are now meant to call it. How is that coming up 10 years ago???
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May 3, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Purple Swampthing, or whatever we are now meant to call it. How is that coming up 10 years ago???
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April 28, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Spectacled Warbler. No, not Elizabeth Fraser, but the first for Britain that turned up at Filey in late May 1992.
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April 17, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Spectacled Warbler. No, not Elizabeth Fraser, but the first for Britain that turned up at Filey in late May 1992.
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Two for the price of one; very often, the large shearwaters have been interlinked in my birding career, so why not?
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April 11, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Two for the price of one; very often, the large shearwaters have been interlinked in my birding career, so why not?
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