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 NewsMap Lite - Rare and scarce birds in the British Isles today

Welcome to NewsMap Lite. Click on the symbols on the map to find the latest breaking rare and scarce birdnews for Britain and Ireland.  Please be sure to send us your own sightings here

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  Most recent RBA news as at 07:32 (Includes local news not shown on NewsMap Lite)
Below is the actual text of the 3 most recent messages to RBA subscribers. For how to access all messages: click here
 
  Yesterday at 23:03   Somerset LESSER SCAUP drk on Monday Chew Valley Lake on east side of Stratford Bay (+ad.Med Gull 3w.Yellow-legged Gull)  
 
  Yesterday at 22:59   Shetland Glaucous Gull Unst at Haroldswick  
 
  Yesterday at 22:58   Surrey Raven flew over Hankley Common  
  News summary for yesterday  
  RBA subscribers click here for more daily summaries complete with weather charts
  Lingering rarities confirmed as still present today comprised the Bufflehead in Dorset, Pied-billed Grebe in County Clare and Hooded Merganser in Cleveland, with in Glamorgan a Bonaparte's Gull and two Lesser Scaups, and in Highland a Bonaparte's Gull and a Little Bunting.

Scarcities included 18 Waxwings across three counties, six Glaucous Gulls, four each of Ring-necked Duck and Iceland Gull, three each of Ring-billed Gull, Great Grey Shrike and Caspian Gull, two each of American Wigeon, Great White Egret, Green-winged Teal (County Clare) and Shorelark (Norfolk) and singles of Surf Scoter (Conwy), Rough-legged Buzzard (Norfolk) and Black Brant (County Cork). 

Significant late news from Cornwall concerned the reappearance of the juvenile Pallid Harrier yesterday near Zennor. First noted in the area on 4th December 2009, the bird had recorded irregularly until 25th January but had not been since.
Chris Batty, RBA
 
 
 
 
 

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