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| Wednesday 22nd September 2010 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Brown Flycatcher on the Shetland Isles at Sumburgh Head. Elsewhere around that archipelago were a
Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler, American Buff-bellied Pipit, Citrine Wagtail and
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (all on Fair Isle), Bluethroat, Ring-necked
Duck, five Barred Warblers, six Yellow-browed Warblers, seven
Common Rosefinches and 27 Lapland Buntings. Elsewhere, lingering rarities included the Whiskered Tern in Cheshire, House Finch in Devon, King Eider in Suffolk, Spotted Sandpipers in both Devon and the Isles of Scilly, Baird's Sandpiper in County Wexford, Wilson's Phalarope in County Waterford, Ortolan Buntings in Dorset (2), Ross's Geese in Dumfrieshre and Lothian (2), White-rumped Sandpiper in Kent, American Golden Plover on the Orkney Isles, Ferruginous Ducks in Somerset (2) and single Glossy Ibises in Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire. Away from the Shetland Isles, scarcities comprised 158 Lapland Buntings, twenty Pectoral Sandpipers, eight Buff-breasted Sandpipers, five each of Common Rosefinch, Wryneck and Yellow-browed Warbler, three Great White Egrets, two each of Spotted Crake, Red-backed Shrike and Ring-billed Gull, and single White-winged Black Tern (Northumberland), Rose-coloured Starling (Cornwall), Purple Heron (Norfolk), Red-necked Phalarope (Essex), Barred Warbler (East Yorkshire), Ring-necked Duck (Somerset), Cattle Egret (Cambridgeshire) |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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