Bluethroat

A local rarity with a single record this century, a singing white-spotted male in a small garden in Staple Hill on 19th June, 2010. 

There are five previous records: 

1968, an immature male trapped at CVL on September 22nd [SBR] 

1971, a first winter male trapped at BL on August 30th 

1985, a first year visiting a Clevedon garden on October 19th and 20th 

1988, a male briefly at Portbury Wharf on May 17th 

1998, a male of the red-spotted race near Marshfield on May 14th