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| Friday 29th August 2014 | ||
| Rare warblers dominated today with a Western Bonelli's Warbler
discovered on the Isles of Scilly, Arctic Warbler on the Shetland Isles,
Subalpine and Greenish Warbler in Suffolk, with further Greenish
Warblers in Norfolk (2) and North Yorkshire. Elsewhere, the Marsh
Sandpiper remained in Gloucestershire, a Lesser Yellowlegs was new in Cornwall at Croft
Pascoe Pool, and a Black Kite was reported briefly in County Meath. Scarcities included Melodious Warbler and Red-necked Phalarope (both Kent), Ortolan Bunting (North Yorkshire), Cattle Egret (Warwickshire), Temminck's Stint (Cambridgeshire), Barred Warbler (Shetland Isles), two Spotted Crakes, three each of Red-backed Shrike and Pectoral Sandpiper, five Common Rosefinches, seven Dotterel and 16 Wrynecks. Seawatch totals comprised 59 Balearic, 50 Great, and 13 Cory's Shearwaters, 58 Sabine's Gulls, six Pomarine Skuas, four Leach's Petrels and a Grey Phalarope. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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