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| Friday 4th October 2013 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Thick-billed Warbler at Geosetter, Shetland Isles
in the mid afternoon; the fifth British record, all of which have been on the Shetland Isles. Elsewhere around the archipelago were at
Pechora Pipit at Isleburgh, Western Bonelli's Warbler and Olive-backed Pipit on Whalsay,
Arctic Warbler at Voe, Eastern Subalpine Warbler on Yell, along with
scattered Little Bunting, Marsh Warbler, Hoopoe, Common
Rosefinch, Great Grey Shrike, two Lapland Buntings and 43 Yellow-browed
Warblers. Meanwhile, on the Isles of Scilly Subalpine Warbler remained with Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Purple Heron, Rose-coloured Starling, Short-toed Lark, Bluethroat, Yellow-browed Warbler, two Lapland Buntings and three Wrynecks. Elsewhere, rare passerines comprised a Daurian Shrike new in Cornwall at Pendeen Watch, Isabelline Wheatear still in Pembrokeshire, Sardinian Warbler in Borders, two Two-barred Crossbills together in Norfolk, Radde's Warbler in Fife, Western Bonelli's Warblers in both County Cork and the Orkney Isles, Siberian Stonechat in Suffolk, Olive-backed Pipit on the Orkney Isles, Subalpine Warbler in Northumberland, Rustic Bunting reported as still pesent in Lincolnshire, and a Blyth's Reed Warbler reported again on the Wirral. Other rarities compried the Laughing Gull still on the Orkney Isles, Black-winged Stilt in Cornwall, Lesser Yellowlegs in Carmarthenshire, County Galway and Kent, American Golden Plovers in Lincolnshire, County Mayo and South Yorkshire, Blue-winged Teal in Clyde and Lincolnshire (3), Lesser Scaup in Greater Manchester, and 18 Glossy Ibises across six counties. Significant late news concerns the third Cedar Waxwing for Britain, present on Tiree, Argyll on 21st-29th September, but suppressed. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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