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| Sunday 3rd October 2010 | ||
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| Once again the Shetland Isles produced an exceptional selection of birds with, on the Mainland,
Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler and Swainson's Thrush at Levenwick,
American Buff-bellied Pipit at Esha Ness, Booted Warbler at Channerwick,
Radde's Warbler at Sumburgh and Citrine Wagtail at Sandwick, whilst off-island reports included
Lanceolated Warbler, Black-headed Bunting and Citrine Wagtail on Out Skerries,
Lanceolated Warbler, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and Little Bunting
on Fair Isle, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and three Little Buntings on Unst and a
White-billed Diver was in Bluemull Sound. Scarcities around the archipelago comprised
Marsh Warbler, Bluethroat, Great Grey Shrike, two each of Short-toed
Lark, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Barred Warbler and Common
Rosefinch, three Buff-breasted Sandpipers, seven Yellow-browed
Warblers, 27 Greenland Redpolls and 256 Lapland Buntings. On the Isles of Scilly the Spotted Sandpiper remained alongside Barred Warbler, Pectoral Sandpiper, Spotted Crake, Spoonbill and nine Lapland Buntings. Elsewhere, new discoveries included a Semipalmated Sandpiper in Essex at Abberton Reservoir, Baird's Sandpiper in County Kerry at Carrahane Strand, Lesser Yellowlegs on the Western Isles on South Uist, Ferruginous Duck in Suffolk at Lackford Lakes and single American Golden Plovers in both the Orkney Isles in Deerness and in East Yorkshire at Great Heck. Other lingering rarities in Britain were the Rustic Bunting in East Yorkshire, Wilson's Phalarope in Norfolk, King Eider in Suffolk, Siberian Stonechat in Cornwall, Lesser Scaup in Warwickshire, Ross's Goose in Dumfries and Galloway, and Glossy Ibises in both Devon (3) and Dorset. In Ireland both American Buff-bellied Pipit and Blue-winged Teal were in County Galway, Wilson's Phalarope, Lesser Yellowlegs and two Blue-winged Teals together in County Wexford, House Crow in County Cork and Black Duck in County Mayo. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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