Patchwork Challenge

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A #patchbirding challenge across the UK and Ireland where the aim is to see and find as many birds as possible on your patch. For more info, go to our blog: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com Join our Bluesky buzz by tagging us in your posts #PWC2026

Sean O'Hara's find of a drake Black Scoter off his Hoylake patch in early March 2025 topped the voting in last year's competition.
Little Gulls at Stanford Reservoir taken by Chris Hubbard.
A species to be on the lookout for this month is Eurasian White-fronted Goose photographed by Daniel Langston earlier this month on his patch surrounded by Greylag Geese. Particularly worthwhile looking for if hoped for cold easterlies return.
Brent Geese moving east past Dungeness, photo by Charlotte Foote.
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White-fronted Geese flock landing at Spurn, 2nd January 2020