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...

Hello from the Patchwork Challenge team! We have now completed our monthly review for July and it seems to have been a slow month nationally, with a lot of effort put in but little reward gained, with a few points scored here and there. However, there have still been some nice birds recorded, including this stunning adult White-winged Black Tern on Gordon's Estuarine patch of Frampton, Splatt & Saul Warth. Read on to find out what more has been seen! We hope you will enjoy.  White-winged Black Tern, Frampton Sailing Lake, Gordon Hodgson Leading scores by mini league 3km²: Inland North England :  Ben Moyes, Swillington Ings -  183 points Inland Midlands :  Pete Sofley, Ladywalk NR -  160 points Inland South England :  Matthew Dick, RSPB Lakenheath-  147 points Inland Scotland : Alex Ash, Kilmacolm  - 86 points  Inland Wales :  Nicholas Beswick, Mynydd Llangatwg -  58 points Coastal East England :  Ja...

 Hello! We have recently had an article published on the Birdguides website, giving a detailed account on how the first half of #PWC2025 has progressed. Why not take a look by following this link: https://www.birdguides.com/articles/patchwork-challenge-2025-update/  Hope you enjoy!  Patchwork Challenge team

  Hello from the PWC team!  Although June was a seemingly quiet month, we are  now well and truly in autumn territory and we look forward to seeing what you record on your patches as the migration begins to unfold.  Caspian Tern, Lakenheath RSPB, Matthew Dick. One of the month's superb finds. Remember, if you are out birding this summer and come across any RBBP data species, report them appropriately and to the local county recorder, for more information follow this link: https://rbbp.org.uk/  Leading scores by mini league 3km²: Inland North England :  Ben Moyes, Swillington Ings -  183 points Inland Midlands :  Pete Sofley, Ladywalk NR -  157 points Inland South England :  Matthew Dick, RSPB Lakenheath-  147 points Inland Scotland : Alex Ash, Kilmacolm  - 86 points  Inland Wales :  Nicholas Beswick, Mynydd Llangatwg -  58 points Coastal East England :  Jack Pettit, Spurn - 276 point...