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| Wednesday 28th December 2016 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was the contiuned presence of the Blue Rock Thrush in Gloucestershire at Stow-on-the-Wold where it showed well all day. Elsewhere, the
Stejneger's Stonechat remains in Kent at Dungeness where it was first been noted on 8th November before being identified by DNA analysis, and
in County Clare a Snowy Owl was new at Luogh. Other lingering rarities confirmed as still present today were the Dusky Thrush in Derbyshire, Blyth's Pipit in Somerset, Pacific Diver, Hudsonian Whimbrel and Eastern Black Redstart in Cornwall, Black-throated Thrush in Denbighshire, Pallid Harrier in East Yorkshire, Red-breasted Goose in Norfolk, Desert Wheatear in Devon, Eastern Black Redstart in Cleveland, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset, Hooded Merganser in Clyde and Lesser Scaup in Dumfries and Galloway. Scarcities included Serin (West Sussex), Richard's Pipit (Gloucestershire), Glossy Ibis (Devon), two of both Rose-coloured Starling and American Wigeon, three Surf Scoters (including one inland in Leicestershire), four of Ring-billed Gull and Lapland Bunting, 11 Ring-necked Ducks, 17 Shorelarks, 42 Cattle Egrets, and a total of 56 Tundra Bean Geese. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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