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| Tuesday 25th June 2013 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the appearance of one of the ultimate megas for the British birder: a
White-throated Needletail at Tarbert, Isle of Harris, Western Isles. First noted late
in the afternoon, it remained there into the evening, and is now known to have first been seen there yesterday.
This is the first to be seen in Britain and Ireland since June 1991, and will be
recorded as the ninth record ever, although it seems likely that it is actually only the fourth individual to reach here, with eight sightings between 25th May 1984 and 14th June 1991 likely to have been a returning bird.
It is, of course, hoped it will remain until tomorrow, and become the first twitchable record since one on Hoy,
Orkney Isles on 28th May-8th June 1988. New rarities elsewhere comprised a Black Stork in Gloucestershire - over-flying both Woorgreens Lake and Staple-edge Woods - and a Gull-billed Tern present this evening at Bowling Green Marsh, Devon. Meanwhile, in Kent the Bonaparte's Gull remained, as did the Western Subalpine Warbler on the Shetland Isles. Scarcities included Melodious Warbler (Nottinghamshire), White-winged Black Tern (Western Isles), Purple Heron and Pectoral Sandpiper (East Yorkshire), Marsh Warbler (2 together on the Shetland Isles), Red-necked Phalarope (Suffolk), Golden Oriole (Orkney Isles), Grey-headed Wagtail (Fife), and Common Rosefinch (Anglesey, Northumberland and Perth and Kinross). |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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