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| Monday 14th September 2009 | ||
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| The highlights of a busy day were the arrival of a Black-headed Bunting in Northumberland on the Farne Islands, a
Lesser Grey Shrike in Suffolk at Trimley Marshes and a party of three Blue-winged Teals on South Uist, Western Isles. Other discoveries included a
Long-billed Dowitcher in County Londonderry at Lough Beg, an American Golden Plover in Argyll on Tiree, a
White-rumped Sandpiper in County Dublin at Merrion Gates and single Great White
Egrets in Cambridgeshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire. Lingering rarities comprised the Booted Warbler still in East Yorkshire, Terek Sandpiper in County Kerry, Snowy Owl on the Western Isles, Citrine Wagtail on the Isles of Scilly, probable Black-headed Bunting in County Cork, Long-billed Dowitcher in Fife, Baird's Sandpipers in Cornwall (2) and County Kerry, Glossy Ibises in Cambridgeshire (7), County Wexford (5) and Suffolk, Ferruginous Duck in Somerset, Hooded Merganser in Cleveland, Cattle Egret in Hampshire and Great White Egrets in both Lancashire and Somerset. Scarcities were represented by 13 Pectoral Sandpipers, 12 Barred Warblers, 10 Buff-breasted Sandpipers, five Spotted Crakes, three each of Bluethroat and Icterine Warbler, two each of Red-breasted Flycatcher, Common Rosefinch, Red-necked Phalarope, Red-backed Shrike and Yellow-browed Warbler and single Little Bunting (Shetland Isles), Melodious Warbler (Cornwall), Ortolan Bunting (Cornwall), American Wigeon (Oxfordshire), Ring-necked Duck (Staffordshire) Rose-coloured Starling (Staffordshire), Golden Oriole (County Cork) and Wryneck (Cornwall). North Sea seawatchers logged 14 Sabine's Gulls, 10 Long-tailed Skuas, 10 Balearic Shearwaters, eight Leach's Petrels, four each of both Great Shearwater and Cory's Shearwater and a Little Auk. Significant late news concerned a female Blackburnian Warbler - the third British record - present in the Western Isles on Hirta, St Kilda from Saturday until early Sunday morning but not since, although a Citrine Wagtail and what was probably a Northern Harrier were also present on the island. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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