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| Friday 5th August 2022 | ||
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Today's stand-out bird was a stunning drake Harlequin Duck, found on the beach at Norwick, Unst, in the Shetlands. Of 20 previous British records, this is the fourth for Shetland and only the second summer record, the previous being on St.Kilda, Western Isles, in June 2007. New White-rumped Sandpipers were found at Anstruther in Fife and Ferrybridge in Dorset. In Lincolnshire the family of Black-winged Stilts (that had been at Potteric Carr in Yorkshire) were rediscovered at Messingham Sand Quarry. The Black Scoter was seen again in Aberdeens and other lingering rarities included the Turkestan Shrike in Yorks, White-rumped Sandpipers in Leicestershire and Yorkshire, Squacco Heron in West Sussex, Lesser Yellowlegs in Hampshire and on Scilly, Bonaparte's Gull seen from a boat in Argyll, Forster's Tern in County Louth, Ferruginous Ducks in Warwickshire (2) and Northamptonshire and the breeding Bee-eaters in Norfolk. Scarcities included 24 Cory's Shearwaters and 10 Great Shearwaters off the Scilles, with further Cory's off North Yorkshire and County Durham, a Night Heron in Kent, Purple Herons in Kent and Anglesey, 25 Glossy Ibises, 2 Surf Scoters, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, an American Golden Plover, a Red-necked Phalarope and a family of Common Rosefinches on Fair Isle. |
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| - Pete Hayman, RBA | ||
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