Patchwork Challenge

Hello from the Patchwork Challenge team!  Well what a year 2025 was! So many patches recorded so many great birds nationally, with just in the first half of the year alone the following birds being recorded: Baikal Teal, White-winged Scoter, Black Scoter, Ferruginous Duck, Ross's Gull, American Herring Gull, Caspian Tern, Pallid Harrier, Scop's Owl, Western and Eastern Subalpine Warblers, Iberian Chiffchaff and Pallas's Reed Bunting! Not all of these are from well watched coastal sites, showing that as long as you work a patch, you have the oppurtunity to fiind anything just about anywhere! You have to be out there to find it...  Amy Robjohns had a big flock of Eurasian White-fronted Geese, part of the national influx during the later part of December! We would like to extend a massive thank you to everyone that took part in the challenge. It has been fantastic to follow your patches  through the scoresheet, Bluesky and Twitter and we really appreciate how much you have a...

As we come to the end of January, we can take a look at the 2024 scores, with a Youtube video coming soon going into detail about the round up too. A massive thank you to everyone that took part, and we really hope you sign up again for this year's competition.  Coastal East England 10km: Congratulations to Sam Goddard at Gibraltar Point NNR for winning with 414 points, with Nige Lound coming second at the same site. James Brown came third at Hopton, with Dartford Warbler being the highlight. Coastal East England: Jacob Spinks came first, with a massive total of 472 points of 234 species; with Spurn Observatory getting the top three spots! Although two of those competitors won't be competing there this year, with those Charlotte and Jacob's highlight of the autumn being finding a Red-flanked Bluetail. Mark Andrews had a brilliant July having Gull-billed Tern and Black-winged Pratincole from the garden, while Trevor Girling at a close fourth at Titchwell RSPB found both Hume...