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| Sunday 8th May 2016 | ||
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| An exiciting day with new rarities including a Broad-billed Sandpiper in Merseyside at Marshside, Bonelli's Warbler sp in Lincolnshire at Gibraltar Point, two Whiskered Terns together in Cleveland at Saltholme, Western Subalpine Warblers in County Wexford on Great Saltee and on Fair Isle, Red-footed Falcon in South Yorkshire at Thorne Moors, Black-headed Wagtails in both Denbeighshire and Pembrokeshire, White-billed Diver in County Donegal, Red-rumped Swallow in Cornwall, three Red-rumped Swallows together on the Isles of Scilly, Tawny Pipit and a Subalpine Warbler on the Shetland Isles, whilst elsewhere brief encounters included two Whiskered Terns and an Alpine Swift in Gloucestershire, Black Kites in Cornwall and Lancashire, Red-footed Falcon in Norfolk, Red-rumped Swallow in Kent and Bee-eater in Dorset. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Western Rufous Turtle Dove in Kent, Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll, Hudsonian Whimbrel in Cornwall, Snowy Owl on the Isles of Scilly, Red-footed Falcon in Dorset, Black-winged Stilt in Norfolk, and both Lesser Yellowlegs and King Eider in Aberdeenshire. Scarcities included Kentish Plover (Dorset), Serin (London), Purple Heron (Norfolk), two each of White-winged Black Tern, Red-backed Shrike and Grey-headed Wagtail, three Hoopoes, four each of Short-toed Lark, Bluethroat and Golden Oriole, and six of both Woodchat Shrike and Temminck's Stint. | ||
| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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