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 NewsMap Lite - Rare and scarce birds in the British Isles today - from Rare Bird Alert

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  Most recent RBA news as at 22:24 (Includes local news not shown on NewsMap Lite)
Below is the actual text of the 3 most recent messages to RBA subscribers. For how to access all messages: click here
  News summary for yesterday  
  RBA subscribers click here for more daily summaries complete with weather charts
  Todays find of the day was a Black-faced Bunting at Stiffkey in Norfolk.

New rarities today consisted of Hume's Warblers at Walberswick and Pakefield in Suffolk, Hartlepool Headland in Cleveland, Wells Wood, Donna Nook and Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire, Waxham, Stiffkey, Holme Dunes (2) and Holkham Pines in Norfolk, Dusky Warblers at St Mary's (3) and Tresco on Scilly, Pakefield in Suffolk, Holme Dunes in Norfolk and Flamborough Head in East Yorkshire, a Pied Wheatear at Bempton Cliffs RSPB in East Yorkshire, Desert Wheatears at Watershoot Bay on the Isle of Wight, Aber Dysynni in Gwynedd, Galley Head in County Cork, Eccles-on-Sea in Norfolk and Easington in East Yorkshire, a Pallid Harrier at North Foreland in Kent and a Coues's Redpoll at Blakeney Village in Norfolk.

Other news came today of the identification of the Eastern Bonelli's Warbler in Easington in East Yorkshire which was still present today and late news of a White-throated Sparrow aboard a ship south of the Isle of Scilly yesterday which was present since Newfoundland in Canada.

Continuing rarities today consisted of Red-breasted Goose in Clyde (2) and Argyll, Ferruginous Duck in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in County Cork, Lesser Yellowlegs in County Dublin, Spotted Sandpiper in West Yorkshire, Crag Martin in Angus, Black-faced Bunting in Shetland, Olive-backed Pipit in Shetland, Siberian Stonechat in East Yorkshire, Desert Wheatear in East Yorkshire, Pied Wheatear in East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire, Hume's Warbler in Lincolnshire, East Yorkshire, Norfolk (2) and Suffolk (2), Dusky Warbler in East Yorkshire and Pallid Harriers in Glamorgan and Lancashire.
-  Luke Stoppard, RBA
 
 
 
 
 



 
 
 
   
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