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| Friday 29th April 2011 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of a singing male Iberian Chiffchaff
in Gwent at Usk. New rarities elsewhere comprised Subalpine Warblers in Gwynedd on Bardsey Island, Orkney Isles on North Ronaldsay, and Western Isles on North Uist, whilst brief encounters included a
Black Stork in Dorset, Black Kite in Cambridgeshire and, in Norfolk, three
Red-footed Falcons and a Red-rumped Swallow. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the territorial Barolo Little Shearwater in Devon, Rufous Turtle Dove in Oxfordshire, Collared Pratincole in Lincolnshire, Snowy Owl on the Western Isles, Blue-winged Teal in Carmarthenshire, Bonaparte's Gulls in both Devon and the Western Isles, Long-billed Dowitcher in Dorset, Lesser Scaup in Lancashire, and White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire, Moray (3) and County Wexford. Scarcities included Woodchat Shrikes in Devon, North Yorkshire and Suffolk, Purple Herons in Bedfordshire and Kent, White-tailed Eagle in Lincolnshire, Kentish Plover in County Wexford, Night Heron in County Waterford, Hoopoe in Hampshire, and Wryneck in Norfolk. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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