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Sunday 5th February 2012 | ||
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New rarities discovered today included a Bonaparte's Gull in County Dublin at Dun Laoghaire, and a
Ferruginous Duck in Somerset at Wimbleball Lake, whilst the White-billed Diver reappeared
on the Orkney Isles, off South Ronaldsay, as did the Bonaparte's Gull in Cardiff, Glamorgan. Other rarities confirmed as present today were both the Spanish Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco in Hampshire, Thayer's Gull in County Fermanagh, Paddyfield Warbler in West Sussex, Bufflehead and Lesser Scaup in Cornwall, Ross's Gull in County Down, Desert Wheatear in East Yorkshire, Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler and Spotted Sandpiper in Dorset, Red-breasted Goose and Spotted Sandpiper in Devon, Bonaparte's Gull in County Antrim, Lesser Scaup in Gloucestershire, Coues's Arctic Redpoll in Norfolk, Ferruginous Duck in Berkshire, Ross's Goose in Cumbria, Northern Long-tailed Tit in West Yorkshire, and Glossy Ibises in Ceredigion, Devon, East Sussex, Pembrokeshire (13) and Powys. Scarce gull totals consisted of 173 Iceland, 44 Glaucous, 13 Kumlien's, eight Caspian and six Ring-billed Gulls (of which five were in Ireland). |
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- Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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