More Red-flanked Bluetails arrive upon UK shores

The records I added in my last post HERE I have added again below in orange. New records I have changed to yellow so you can see the new records since the past post.

Shetland - Fair Isle – 27/09/2010 – (2)

Suffolk - Croton – 28/09/2010 – (1)

Shetland – Norwick,Unst – 28/09/2010 – (1)

Fife – Fife Ness – 28/09/2010 – (1)

Shetland – Isle of Whalsay – 30/09/2010 – (1)

Suffolk – Pakefield – 30/09/2010 – (1)

Shetland – Geosetter – 08/10/2010 – (1)

Shetland – Tresta – 08/10/2010 – (1)

Northumberland – Newbiggin – 09/10/2010 – (1)

Northumberland – St Mary’s Island – 09/10/2010 – (1)

Norfolk – Wells – 09/10/2010 – (1)

Cleveland – Saltburn – 10/10/2010 – (1)

Orkney – Queenamidda – 11/10/2010 – (1)

Norfolk – Burnham Overy Staithe – 11/10/2010 – (1)

Norfolk – Weybourne – 11/10/2010 – (1)

Lothian – Scoughall – 11/10/2010 – (1)

Norfolk – Waxham – 12/10/2010 – (1)

Co.Cork – Cape Clear – 12/10/2010 – (1)

Shetland – Kergord – 14/10/2010 – (1)

Shetland – Boddam – 15/10/2010 – (1)

Borders – St Abb’s Head – 16/10/2010 – (1)

NEW RECORDS SINCE:

Shetland – Fair Isle – 16/10/2010 – (1)

Suffolk – Lowestoft – 17/10/2010 – (1)

Norfolk – Holme next the Sea– 17/10/2010 – (1)

Devon – Lundy – 18/10/2010 – (1)

Isles of Scilly – St Martin’s – 19/10/2010 – (1)

Hampshire – Sandy Point  – 19/10/2010 – (1)

So by my calculations that’s 21 (old records) + 6(new records) which is 27. So there have been 27 Red-flanked Bluetails reported so far this year in the United Kingdom pus an additional bird in Southern Ireland which would make the total 28.

Thanks to the anonymous poster who informed me of the vagrancy of Red-flanked Bluetails in the United Kingdom over the past few years. Here are the results for the past 6 years including this years total as it currently stands:

2010: 27 (new record total + second record ever for Ireland (1))
2009: 7
2008: 13
2007: 8
2006: 4
2005: 2

Already 2008’s whole year total has been doubled! Who knows how many of these fantastically stunning species we will see this autumn upon our shores.

(Red-flanked Bluetail – © Craig Shaw)