Firecrest

A scarce passage migrant and winter visitor with some recent increase. 

It bred successfully at BG in 2013 and 2014, and probably in 2015. 

It was a local rarity until 2009, having been a national rarity until 1963. 

Early published records are as follows: 

1913 – Clifton on February 16th [British Birds vol 6 page 343] 

1914 – corpse found in Clifton in autumn Davis (1947) 

1950 – Ubley end of BL on December 10th 

1960 – adult male trapped on Steep Holm on October 4th