Patchwork Challenge

Hello from the Patchwork Challenge team! An awesome month, with autumn migration now in full swing with no stopping in sight! Some patch birders succeeded with finding some mega rare birds on their patches yielding them fifteen well earned points! This just showing that working a patch, birders will one day be justly rewarded, let that be either a national mega bird or a locally good bird that you have always wanted to grace your patch.  Now September is underway, hopes are high for more rarity action - by the time of writing, there has been quite a few American Waders recorded in Britain and Ireland this autumn, American Goldies, Buff-breasted and Baird's Sands, Wilson's Phalaropes etc, while those westerly winds are still bringing across large numbers of good seabirds to the western coastline, as August proved!  The autumn so far has been somewhat lacking in prolonged easterly winds, bringing drift migrants in to the majority of the east coast. The long range forecast at the...