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| Tuesday 12th October 2010 | ||
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| Today's highlights on the Isles of Scilly were
both Pied and Western Black-eared Wheatear, Subalpine Warbler,
American Golden Plover, Little Bunting, Pectoral Sandpiper, two each of
Icterine Warbler, Red-breasted Flycatcher and Common Rosefinch,
four Wrynecks and five Yellow-browed Warblers. Meanwhile, on the
Shetland Isles were Daurian Shrike, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Olive-backed
Pipit, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll, Radde's Warbler, Dusky Warbler, Snow Goose,
Short-toed Lark, Red-breasted Flycatcher, two each of Buff-breasted
Sandpiper, Barred Warbler and Great Grey Shrike, three
Shorelarks, five Greenland Redpolls, 10 Yellow-browed Warblers
and 85 Lapland Buntings.
Elsewhere, rare passerines comprised, in County
Cork Myrtle Warbler, American Buff-bellied Pipit, Red-eyed Vireo,
Red-flanked Bluetail and House Crow, on the Western Isles two
Red-eyed Vireos together, in Lincolnshire a brief Black-eared Wheatear,
in Northumberland Red-flanked Bluetail, Olive-backed Pipit and Dusky
Warbler, in Norfolk a Red-flanked Bluetail, in North Yorkshire a
Dusky Warbler, in Hampshire two brief Penduline Tits, in Cleveland
a Red-throated Pipit and in London an Ortolan Bunting flew over.
Other rarities included the Green Heron
still in Cornwall, Solitary Sandpiper in Devon, Squacco Heron in
Pembrokeshire, Baird's Sandpiper in Essex, Wilson's Phalaropes
in both Norfolk and County Wicklow, Lesser Yellowlegs in County Galway,
King Eider in Suffolk, single Lesser Scaups in both Dumfries and
Warwickshire, Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk and Glossy Ibises in
Devon, Dumfries and County Tyrone.
Significant late news concerned a Common
Nighthawk present yesterday at Horden, County Durham but not found there
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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