Yellow-browed Warbler, Phylloscopus inornatus

Local status: Very rare vagrant

Yellow-browed Warblers have been expanding their range westwards in recent decades and ever-increasing numbers are arriving on the Yorkshire coast in the autumn

Records:
2024: Bank Island, 14th November. one
2024: Wheldrake Ings, 4th/5th November. one sound recorded over night
2024: North Duffield Ings, 16th October. one
2024: Melbourne, 15th October. one
2024: Rowntree Park, 28th & 29th September. one

Yellow-browed Warbler
Yellow-browed Warbler, Rowntree Park 28th September 2024 ©Vaughan Grantham

2021: Poppleton garden, 7th October. one

Yellow-browed Warbler at Poppleton ©Adrian Hotson
Yellow-browed Warbler at Poppleton ©Adrian Hotson

2018: York, 21st October. one
2017: Tang Hall Beck, 29th November. one
2017: Clifton Ings, 25th November. one
2017: Gilling, 14th October, one
2017: Grosvenor Terrace, York, 8th October, one
2017: York Railway station, 25th September. one
2017: Rawcliffe Lake, 22nd March. one.
2016: Hob Moor LNR, 14th November. one
2015: Bank Island, 1st October. one
2015: Askham Richard, 23rd September. one
2014: Skipwith Common, 30th October. Trapped and ringed.

Yellow-browed Warbler Skipwith Common 30th October 2014 © David Tate
Yellow-browed Warbler Skipwith Common 30th October 2014 © David Tate

2013: Bank Island, 6th to 15th October. one
2009: Sand Hutton, 4th November. one
1996: Askham Bog, 1st November. one