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| Sunday 9th April 2017 | ||
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| The highlight of the day was confirmation of the seventh and eighth singing Iberian Chiffchaffs of the spring in Merseyside at Seaforth and in East Yorkshire at Kilnsea. Elsewhere, a
Western Subalpine Warbler was new on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, a Red-rumped Swallow in Cornwall at Penberth Cove, and a
Lesser Yellowlegs in Carmarthenshore present for a third day at Laugharne. Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll, Bonaparte's Gull in Oxfordshire, two Black-winged Stilts together in Essex, Long-billed Dowitcher in County Wexford, Lesser Yellowlegs in Dorset, and White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire, Moray (2) and the Orkney Isles. Scarcities included Kentish Plover, American Wigeon, Serin and Richard's Pipit all in Norfolk, four Woodchat Shrikes (including three in Cornwall), Purple Heron and Hoopoe on the Isles of Scilly, Wryneck in Cornwall, White Stork in Suffolk, two each of Surf Scoter, Ring-billed Gull and Yellow-browed Warbler, three Glossy Ibises, four Ring-necked Ducks, five Shorelarks, 13 Lapland Buntings and a total of 64 Cattle Egrets. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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