Bay-breasted Warbler
Setophaga castanea (Wilson, A, 1810) (0, 2)
Photo © By Mike's Birds from Riverside, CA, US - Bay-sided Warbler, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81468166
STATUS
North America. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
The first was seen by two birders on a week’s holiday in Cornwall for 45 minutes who then photographed it and also took some camcorder footage. A sudden violent rainstorm forced the bird to hide in the dry stone wall, but after then it could not be relocated.
BBRC RECORD
1). 1995 Cornwall Land's End, first-winter male, 1st October, photo.
(Birding World 8 (10): 369, photos; Birding World 9 (8): 318, photo; D. Ferguson, British Birds 90: 444-449, plates 153-155; D. Ferguson, Birds in Cornwall 1995: 158; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 90: 509; BOURC (1998), Ibis 140: 183).
2). 2023 Pembrokeshire Ramsey Island, 1CY, 21st to 26th September, photo.
(British Birds 117: plate 234; L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 117: 730, plate 496).
