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| Saturday 21st February 2009 | ||
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| Rarities confirmed as still present today in England comprised the Snowy Owl and two
Cattle Egrets in Cornwall, Penduline Tit, Cattle Egret, Black-bellied Dipper and
Ross's Goose all in Norfolk, Red-breasted Goose in West Sussex,
Lesser Scaup in Nottinghamshire, Ferruginous Duck in Essex, three
Cattle Egrets in Devon, single Great White Egrets in Cambridgeshire, Cleveland and Oxfordshire and the
Hooded Merganser in Dorset. Highlights in Scotland included single King Eiders in both Fife and Lothian and, in Dumfries and Galloway, a Cackling Canada Goose showed again. In Ireland the American Herring Gull reappeared in County Galway, two King Eiders remained in County Sligo and six Cattle Egrets were recorded in both County Cork and County Waterford. In Wales the Lesser Scaup returned to Glamorgan. Scarcities located around the British Isles included twelve Great Grey Shrikes, eight Ring-billed Gulls, five Green-winged Teals, three Ring-necked Ducks, three Kumlien's Gulls, two each of Surf Scoter, Rough-legged Buzzard and Black Brant and one each of White Stork, Snow Goose and Lapland Bunting. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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