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| Tuesday 14th May 2013 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Pied-billed Grebe in County Mayo on Achill Island. Elsewhere, a
Great Reed Warbler at Grimley, Worcestershire was a county first, a Western Subalpine Warbler was in Aberdeenshire at Cruden Bay, a
Black Kite noted briefly in Kent, and a Black-winged Stilt arrived with three
Pectoral Sandpipers at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were both the Collared Flycatcher and Ortolan Bunting on the Shetland Isles, Snowy Owl on the Western Isles, Red-footed Falcon in Suffolk, Spotted Sandpiper in Cornwall, Bonaparte's Gulls in both Devon and County Kerry, King Eider in Aberdeenshire, White-billed Diver in Moray, and Ferruginous Duck in Somerset. Scarcities included Red-breasted Flycatcher, Red-backed Shrike and Wryneck on the Shetland Isles, Marsh Warbler in Suffolk, Serin in West Sussex, Red-backed Shrike on the Orkney Isles, as well as two each of Woodchat Shrike, Hoopoe, Cattle Egret (inlcuding one on Anglesey) and Surf Scoter (including one in Northumberland), three Golden Orioles, 19 Dotterel, 16 Long-tailed Skuas and 86 Pomarine Skuas. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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