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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dantheman" data-source="post: 1381090" data-attributes="member: 32998">Some nice finds there! I didn't get out as much as I should have and unlikely to find any megas anyway. . . Best UK birds were a Wryneck and Hoopoe in Cornwall this autumn. Unfortunately the Wryneck had already been found earlier in the day, but with no mobile signal we didn't know that. The Hoopoe was a rather distant flyby. (We'll be happy to let the committee decide if it wants that one to get through . . )Not rare, but finding my own Leach's Petrel on a seawatch down there was good, (self found lifers more satisfying). A little bit rarer, I was also 'in-on' a potential Yelkouan Shearwater at St Ives in the summer. Not sure if that counts though!Otherwise, rarest bird was undoubtably a Eurasian Whimbrel in New Jersey, USA back in April. Even managed to get dodgy phone-binned flight shots!! Very lucky as I'd got our return flight times muddled up and we shouldn't have even been birding on the last morning and instead been on our way back to JFK airport. We just made the flight, the extra stress definitely worth it.</blockquote>