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| Wednesday 29th April 2015 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the reappearance of the female Hudsonian Godwit at Meare Heath,
Somerset; relocated late morning the bird showed into the evening when it departed to the west with Black-tailed Godwits. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Great Blue Heron still on the Isles of Scilly, Pied-billed Grebe in Lancashire, single Harlequin Ducks in both Aberdeenshire and Highland, a Spotted Sandpiper new in Powys at Neuadd Reservoirs, four Black-winged Stilts together in Kent, King Eider still in Aberdeenshire, and a brief Red-rumped Swallow at Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire. Scarities included Purple Heron (County Wicklow), Pectoral Sandpiper (London), Grey-headed Wagtail (North Yorkshire), American Wigeon (Northumberland), Glossy Ibis (Nottinghamshire), two each of Night Heron, Hoopoe, Rough-legged Buzzard and Shorelark, and 16 migrant Dotterel. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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