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| Friday 5th May 2023 | ||
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| A Short-toed Treecreeper at Dungeness Point is the third individual found in Kent so far this year. Other new discoveries today included an Iberian Chiffchaff at Hailsham, Sussex, a Citrine Wagtail on Fair Isle, Shetland, an Alpine Swift at Shillingstone, Dorset, a Red-rumped Swallow on St Martin's and a Laughing Gull on Gugh, both Scilly, a Squacco Heron at Kilmore Quay, County Wexford, a Kentish Plover at Minsmere, Suffolk, Black-winged Stilts at Rainham Marshes RSPB, London, Southwold, Suffolk (four) and Misson, Nottinghamshire (two) and Kent recorded Bee-eaters at High Halden (three), Sandwich Bay, Betteshanger (two) and Ramsgate (ten).
Lingering rarities included the Grey-headed Lapwing in Northumberland, Stejneger's Scoter and White-winged Scoter in Fife, Forster's Tern in Dorset, Great Reed Warbler in Somerset, Squacco Heron and Bonaparte's Gull in Cornwall, Pallid Harriers in Yorkshire and Lothian, Hooded Merganser in Cumbria, Lesser Scaup in Staffordshire, two Ferrginous Ducks and Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, Black-winged Stilts in Cheshire and Lincolsnhire (three) and White-billed Diver in Moray. Scarcity highlights included a Red-breasted Flycatcher, a Red-spotted Bluethroat, a Grey-headed Wagtail, two Woodchat Shrikes, two Wrynecks, two Shorelarks, three Serins, five Golden Orioles, seven Hoopoes, a Pectoral Sandpiper, four Temminck's Stints, 13 Dotterel, a Night Heron, two Purple Herons, three Glossy Ibises, a Honey Buzzard, a Montagu's Harrier, two Ring-necked Ducks, four Surf Scoters, a Taiga Bean Goose, a Balearic Shearwater, up to 51 Pomarine Skuas, a Glaucous Gull and an Iceland Gull. |
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