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| Monday 30th June 2008 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of a pair of Black-winged Stilts in Hampshire. It seems likely they are the pair that made a failed breeding attempt at Neumann's Flash, Cheshire on 25th April-21st June before relocating to the adjacent Ashton's Flash on 27th-29th June and then migrating 175 miles to the south southeast to arrive at Beaulieu within twenty hours. The identification of the Balearic Woodchat Shrike in Somerset was confirmed this morning, just as the bird disappeared from view. Whilst in Lincolnshire another suspected Balearic Woodchat Shrike was discovered this evening at Saltfleet Haven. Other lingering rarities were the Lesser Yellowlegs in Norfolk and the Hooded Merganser in Dorset. Two Wilson's Petrels off the Isles of Scilly were the first recorded in the British Isles this summer. Scarcities included Short-toed Lark on the Orkney Isles, Common Rosefinch in Forth and two Rose-coloured Starlings on the Orkney Isles - there have now been at total of 31 Rose-coloured Starlings recorded from twenty British counties so far this summer. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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