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| Friday 7th November 2008 | ||
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| A first-winter Steppe Grey Shrike was today's star find, at
Grainthorpe Haven in Lincolnshire. If the bird is still present tomorrow it will
represent the first twitchable Mainland pallidirostris for twelve years.
News was released of a male Two-barred Crossbill that has been visiting a garden feeder on the North Yorkshire Moors for the last two weeks - like the shrike, if present tomorrow this bird will no doubt be extremely popular. Other new rarities today included yet another Red-flanked Bluetail, this time on Holy Island, Northumberland, an Olive-backed Pipit on Shetland, two Hume's Yellow-browed Warblers (Orkney and Northumberland), Radde's Warblers in Norfolk and North and East Yorkshire, Desert Wheatear in Kent, Cattle Egrets in Shropshire and Hampshire and a Red-breasted Goose in the latter county. Lingering rarities consisted of the Desert Wheatear in Suffolk, Green Heron in Kent, King Eider in Devon, Cattle Egret in Merseyside, Lesser Scaup in Nottinghamshire and Ferruginous Duck in Essex. |
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| - Stuart Piner, RBA | ||
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