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| Monday 20th May 2024 | ||
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| Exceptional news today of a Booted Eagle photographed amidst a record breaking movement of immature Red Kites in Cornwall; a juvenile dark morph initially at St Just and then reported later over Morvah Quoit. This is the first Booted Eagle to be photographed here since the famous immature pale morph that was present in Ireland and then Britain between 7th February 1999 and 22nd June 2000 that is held in Category D of the British List. In the interim 24 years Booted Eagle has been suspected (but not accepted) in Britain on a further 31 occasions including confident claims in Devon (2001), Kent (2002, 2007, 2009, and 2014), Suffolk (2010 and 2021), Hampshire (2010), Lincolnshire (2013), West Sussex (2013), and Norfolk (2015).
Other rare raptors comprised a Pallid Harrier at Burton Fleming, Yorkshire, the lingering Red-footed Falcon at Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire, and at least four Black Kites in Cornwall with birds recorded at Polgigga (four), St Buryan (two), Land's End (two), Penzance, Hayle and Porthgwarra. Other new discoveries included a Black-winged Stilt at Berry Fen, Cambridgeshire and a Red-rumped Swallow on St Mary's, Scilly, whilst a Little Bittern was recorded flying over Tacumshin, County Wexford overnight. Lingering rarities included the Indigo Bunting in County Durham, Great Reed Warbler in Cambridgeshire, Savi's Warblers in both Leicestershire and Yorkshire, Black-winged Stilt and Red-breasted Goose together in Lincolnshire, and American Black Tern in Northumberland. |
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| - Chris Batty and Will Soar, RBA | ||
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