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| Sunday 29th January 2012 | ||
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| A female Parrot Crossbill was identified in East Sussex at Black Down, where it was present for a fourth day. This is the first record of this species in England since a male was near Fordingbridge, Hampshire on 5th-15th March 2000. Rarities recorded today comprised both Spanish Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco still in Hampshire, Western Sandpiper, Lesser White-fronted Goose, Coues's Arctic Redpoll and Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk, Bufflehead in Cornwall, Ross's Gull in County Down, Red-breasted Geese in both Devon and Essex, Desert Wheatear in East Yorkshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Carmarthenshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Somerset, Spotted Sandpipers in Devon and Dorset, Lesser Scaups in Cornwall, Gloucestershire and County Kerry, Richardson's Canada Goose in County Sligo, Ross's Goose in Cumbria, two Northern Long-tailed Tits together in West Yorkshire, and Glossy Ibises in Cheshire, Cornwall, Gwent (2), Isle of Wight, Kent (2) and Lancashire. Scarcities included Richard's Pipit (Dorset), Pectoral Sandpiper (Ayrshire), Temminck's Stint (Cambridgeshire) and a total of 62 Tundra Bean Geese. Gulls included 189 Iceland, 29 Glaucous, 12 Kumlien's, seven Caspian and six Ring-billed. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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