Back-to-back transatlantic lows brought further exciting arrivals from the New World, including a Nearctic passerine or two, though it was the shorebirds that stole the headlines, with several delivering thrills to patch birders in central and eastern England. Cornwall enjoyed a monopoly on mega-rare seabirds, though more exciting still was some of the best Leach's Storm Petrel passage in the Irish Sea for several years. Read more>