Little Bunting
Emberiza pusilla
Emberiza pusilla
A National rarity until 1994 and a local rarity since then.
There is only a single record this century, at OPS on 13th April, 2021.
There were four records in the 20th century, as follows:
1976 – trapped at CVL on January 4th [BBRC*] (photo in 1976 BBRC report)
1986 – Lansdown on October 17th [BBRC*]
1996 – a first-winter male at CVL from March 31st until April 21st
1997 – in a garden at Redland from December 27th until April 15th 1998