Plans for a full annotated checklist of the birds of Paxton Pits are in the pipeline, but in the meantime, below are details of species recorded three times or fewer in the Paxton Pits complex (or the land that was there before quarrying began!)

Alpine swift
11th May 1998

American golden plover
27th October 2006

Arctic skua
11th September 2005

Bean goose
9 on 11th-18th December 1992
7th March 1991
24th January-20th March 1992

Black-throated diver
16th December 1994-6th January 1995
16th-28th November 1996
4th December 2005

Blue-winged teal
13th-16th September 1987

Caspian tern
1st August 1982

Corncrake
Bred until 1930s, but no records since 1949

Crossbill
4 on 17th July 1988
2nd September, 20th November 2002

Eider
29th January-3rd February 1996

Ferruginous duck
4th February 1979
14 September 2003

Fulmar
24th May 2003
1st March 2004
23rd March 2007

Great grey shrike
6th January 1962
8th-9th January 1994

Great white egret
24th-at least 26th December 2007

Grey phalarope
17th October 1987

Guillemot
20th February 1996

Hawfinch
20th December 2005

Hoopoe
24th-27th September 1980
Spring 1984

Iceland gull
20th January 1985
23rd April 1999

Killdeer
7th-8th March 1959

Little auk
20th November 1999

Long-tailed duck
Early 1980s
6th July 2003

Marsh warbler
Early 1920s
27th May - 6th June 1990

Montagu’s harrier
12th May 1996

Nutcracker
Shot in 1906

Pectoral sandpiper
11th October 2001
26th August 2003
25/26th September 2006

Purple heron
4th September 1988

Red-footed falcon
24-25th May 1987
28th May-10th June 1989
16th-19th June 1995

Red-necked phalarope
23rd September 1974

Red-throated diver
11th January 1976
26th January 1976

Roseate tern
3 June 2006

Rose-coloured starling
3rd September 1998

Ruddy shelduck
6th April 2000
six, 11th August 2007

Snow bunting
12th January 1978
2 on 20th December 1980
7th February 1993

Spotted crake
14th August 2004

Twite
2 on 29th March 1982

White stork
6th July 2002
12th April 2004

Woodlark
3rd August 1980

Wryneck
5th June 1990

Yellow-browed warbler
26th October 2003

Not accepted/submitted

Leach’s petrel
1987

Common crane
1987

Black kite
28th May 1989; 26th May 2001

Gull-billed tern
2 on 5th September 1976

Night heron
23rd June 1989

Squacco heron
25th July 1977

Little bunting
Date unknown