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| Friday 31st December 2010 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the identification of a Lesser Scaup at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. Rarities elsewhere in Britain comprised the
Pacific Diver still in Cornwall, Red-breasted Goose in East Sussex,
Northern Harrier in Norfolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Dorset, King
Eider in Moray, Lesser Scaup in Glamorgan and Glossy Ibis in Berkshire. In Ireland the
Forster's Tern remained in County Galway, as did the Ferruginous Duck
in County Armagh and both the White-billed Diver and House Crow in County Cork. Scarcities included 82 Lapland Buntings, 22 Tundra Bean Geese, 17 Shorelarks, 10 Iceland Gulls, nine Great Grey Shrikes, seven Glaucous Gulls, six Caspian Gulls, three each of Surf Scoter, Rough-legged Buzzard, Ring-billed Gull, Great White Egret and Green-winged Teal, two each of Balearic Shearwater and Cattle Egret (together in Hampshire) and single American Wigeon (County Cork), Ring-necked Duck (County Londonderry) and Grey Phalarope (Cornwall). |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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