As I sit here writing this a week after I was planning a trip to Shetland in the morning to see a Siberian Accentor, a first for Britain, astonishingly a further three birds have been recorded on the mainland. The first individual was found on Thursday by Lance Degan at the end of Vicars Lane, Easington, East Yorkshire. The bird is still there today (Sunday) and has been seen by hundreds of birders, as the picture below shows.
BIRDERS QUEUEING TO SEE THE BIRD
BRITAINS SECOND SIBERIAN ACCENTOR
On Saturday afternoon, another individual was found at Huntcliff in Saltburn, Cleveland, by Damien Money (PIC HERE). Incredible to think we are now on the 3rd bird in a week, and then today (Sunday) the MEGA alert went off again at Hendon in County Durham, where the 4th individual was found at the docks (PIC HERE). 4th for Britain in a week! CRAZY!This was just a birders dream bird this time last week!WATCH THIS SPACE; WE COULD SEE 5 BY TOMORROW!
UPDATED 26th OCTOBER 2016
As I sit here updating my blog this afternoon, another Siberian Accentor has just been found at Houbie in Shetland, which now makes this bird the 10th for Britain. Numbers of this species have also dramatically increased across Europe.
158 Siberian accentor's have now been recorded since the 4th-26th Oct: SWE(59), FIN(45), DEN(10), GBR(10), GER(7), EST(6), POL(6), NOR(6), LAT(5), LIT(3), and NED(1) INCREDIBLE!