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

Welcome to Rare Bird Alert's all new birdnews page on BirdForum. Click on the symbols on the map below to find the latest breaking rare and scarce birdnews for Britain and Ireland. Please be sure send us your own birdnews sightings here. 

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  Most recent RBA news as at 13:24 (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 13:19   Staffs SPOTTED SAND juv still 1pm 2mls NNE of Leek at Tittesworth Resr on dam +showing well  
 
  Today at 13:15   Hants GREAT WHITE EGRET still Blashford Lakes HWT on Rockford Lake at 1.10pm then flew south to sailing club lake (drk.Long-tailed Duck still on Ibsley Water +ad.Yellow-legged Gull)  
 
  Today at 13:09   Lancs 11.Waxwings Carnforth by bus stop just SE of railway station at 1.05pm then flew NE  
  News summary for yesterday  
  RBA subscribers click here for more daily summaries complete with weather charts
  A brief Black-throated Thrush in Skegness, Lincolnshire, Spotted Sandpiper at Tittesworth Reservoir, Staffordshire and Cattle Egret at Martin Mere WWT in Lancashire were today's best new discoveries.

Lingering rarities included Steppe Grey Shrike in Lincolnshire, Two-barred Crossbill in North Yorkshire and Long-billed Dowitcher in Western Isles and wildfowl highlights consisted of a Ferruginous Duck in Glamorgan, Lesser Scaup in Nottinghamshire, American Wigeon in Berkshire and Red-breasted Goose in Hampshire.

Seven Rough-legged Buzzards were logged (including the three juveniles at the same site in East Yorkshire), a Night Heron was seen in West Hythe (in exactly the same spot as the recent Green Heron), and Waxwings were still abundant, especially in Scotland and Northeast England.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA