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| Sunday 27th August 2023 | ||
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The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Western Rufous Turtle Dove on the Western Isles on South Uist, with other new rarities including an Azorean Yellow-legged Gull in Cornwall at Sennen, a Lesser Yellowlegs in Angus at Montrose Basin, and an Alpine Swift briefly in East Sussex at Wilmington. Seabirds included the Red-footed Booby and a Scopoli's Shearwater at sea off the Isles of Scilly, a Wilson's Petrel passing County Clare, seven Sabine's Gulls, 14 Long-tailed Skuas, 117 Great Shearwaters, and a total of 1,021 Cory's Shearwaters. Otherwise, rarities included the Stejneger's Scoter and King Eider still together in Lothian, Greater Sand Plover still in County Wexford, Forster's Tern in Dorset, Black-winged Pratincole in County Donegal, Black Storks in Hampshre and Lincolnshire, Blue-winged Teal in East Yorkshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, Greenish Warblers on the Shetland Isles (2) and East Yorkshire, Bonaparte's Gulls in County Cork (2), County Down, and Kent, and four Black-winged Stilts together in South Yorkshire. Scarcities included Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Western Isles), Woodchat Shrike (Scilly), Melodious Warbler (Devon), Serin and Marsh Warbler (Dorset), American Golden Plover Norfolk), Rose-coloured Starling and Common Rosefinch (Shetland), Red-necked Phalarope (Suffolk), Dotterel (Cornwall), Surf Scoter (Lothian), two each of both Icterine Warbler and Hoopoe, three of Wryneck and Glossy Ibis, four of Barred Warbler, Red-backed Shrike, and Pectoral Sandpiper. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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