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

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  Most recent RBA news as at 23:28 (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
 
  Today at 22:58   Derbys 2.Yellow-legged Gulls (both ads) Middleton Moor in roost again  
 
  Today at 22:43   Argyll Med Gull 2s Loch Gilp 2mls south of Ardrishaig off A83 on shore at Inverneill this a'noon cNR.850.814  
 
  Today at 22:42   Staffs no sign of Wood Sand nor Arctic Tern 2mls SW of Burton-upon-Trent at Branston GPs this evng but 8+Green Sands  
  News summary for yesterday  
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  An adult Semipalmated Sandpiper was present at Port Carlisle (Cumbria) for its third day. In Co Wexford an adult White-rumped Sandpiper was discovered at Tacumshin, where the long-staying Glossy Ibis and a Montagu's Harrier also lingered.

Elsewhere lingering rarities included Whiskered Tern in Cleveland, American Herring Gull in Co Kerry, House Finch in Devon and Franklin's Gull in Staffordshire.

The best of the rest came in the form of a Cattle Egret in London, Great White Egrets in Somerset and Kent, Purple Heron in Kent, two Ring-necked Ducks in Fife, Surf Scoter in Angus, Pectoral Sandpiper in Cornwall and Spotted Crake in Hampshire.

A Grey-headed Purple Gallinule in Flintshire was in a ditch in Saltney (Flintshire), where it had been present for the past three weeks. Previous British records have all been regarded as escapes from captivity and it seems unlikely that this individual will be taken seriously as a potential addition to Category A of The British List.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA