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| Tuesday 12th September 2023 | ||
Notable seabirds today included the Red-footed Booby still off the Isles of Scilly, Brown Booby still in Cleveland, a Fea's Petrel species passing Cleveland and then County Durham, and totals of five Sabine's Gulls, 22 Long-tailed Skuas, 309 Great Shearwaters, and 4,700 Cory's Shearwaters. Rare waders comprised the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper still in Angus, Lesser Yellowlegs in Cumbria, Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, two each of both Temminck's Stint and Dotterel, four Buff-breasted Sandpipers, and nine Pectoral Sandpipers. Elsewhere rarities comprised the Aquatic Warbler still in West Sussex, Western Bonelli's Warbler on Scilly, Forster's Tern still in Dorset, Citrine Wagtail in Cornwall, two Blue-winged Teals together in East Yorkshire, and a Red-rumped Swallow new in Dorset at Hartland Moor. Otherwise scarcities included Spotted Crake (Derbyshire), Night Heron (County Durham), Common Rosefinch (Shetland Isles), two of Melodious Warbler and Red-backed Shrike, three of Purple Heron, Rose-coloured Starling, and Lapland Bunting, five Hoopoes, six Barred Warblers, eight Glossy Ibises, and 15 Wrynecks. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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