The best rare birds seen all around Britain in 2025

DECEMBER 2025

Adrian Thomas looks to the skies for three special birds that you may see over your garden or might even attract into your space to breed

MARCH

The year was rounded off nicely with one or two exceptional rarities, rudely inconveniencing many birders enjoying the festive season…

Hares tend to steal the limelight in March, thanks to their spirited boxing bouts, as the females fend off unwanted advances from feisty males. However, rabbits are fairly boisterous, too. The differe