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| Sunday 22nd April 2007 | ||
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| A busy Sunday saw the arrival of several new rarities. These included
four new Glossy Ibises seen flying over the M5 in Somerset, Red-rumped
Swallows over Landguard NR, Suffolk, Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire and
Spurn, East Yorkshire and lingering Black Kites on the North Norfolk
coastline and Isles of Scilly. A party of seven Bee-eaters were briefly on Walland
Marsh, Kent, in the morning and an Olive-backed Pipit was apparently
photographed in a garden near Hull, East Yorkshire.
Perhaps the most significant news however, relates to a bird found yesterday evening - a chiffchaff just outside Norwich, Norfolk, was recorded singing and calling like an Iberian Chiffchaff. Excellent views of the bird this morning and analysis of sonograms confirmed the identification as an Iberian Chiffchaff, the first for Norfolk. Elsewhere the Killdeer remained on Shetland and the popular parties of Glossy Ibises (seventeen at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire and seven on The Lizard, Cornwall) were still on offer. In Devon the first-winter Laughing Gull made a brief appearance at Bowling Green Marsh RSPB and in Cornwall the Spotted Sandpiper was at Hayle. A Serin was singing in Nanjizal Valley, Cornwall and a Wryneck was at Rye, East Sussex. Ducks were represented by the Marbled Duck in Gloucestershire and Barrow's Goldeneyes in Forth and Co Down, as well as a 'new' adult drake Lesser Scaup at Vane Farm RSPB, Perth and Kinross. |
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| - Stuart Piner, RBA | ||
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