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| Saturday 16th October 2010 | ||
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| A Sharp-tailed Sandpiper was an excellent find at the Rogerstown
Estuary in County Louth but, surprisingly, two of today's other headline birds
were seabirds - Fea's Petrels - reported past North Ronaldsay in the
Orkneys and Flamborough Head in Yorkshire, and with only two and a half hours
between the sightings, they must have been different individuals. Also on Orkney
a Black-throated Thrush was found on Mainland. New Red-flanked
Bluetails were found at St.Abb's in Aberdeenshire and on Fair Isle in the
Shetlands. A Radde's Warbler was reported on Gugh in the Scillies, and a
Lesser Scaup was found at Loch Ryan in Dumrfries and Galloway.
The Hermit Thrush remained on Barra in the Western Isles and other lingering rarities included the Green Heron in Cornwall, Lesser Yellowlegs in Oxfordshire, Baird's Sandpiper in Essex, Squacco Heron in Pembrokeshire and Red-eyed Vireo and Subalpine Warbler in the Scillies. The Steppe Grey Shrike was relocated at Loch of Strathbeg in Aberdeenshire and there was a King Eider on Fair Isle, which had been found yesterday as well as the lingering Blyth's Reed Warbler. A few Waxwings have been noted along the east coast and in the Northern Isles in the last couple of days. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Friday 15th October 2010 | ||
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| New rarities found today were as follows: in Shetland a Red-flanked
Bluetail at Troswick on Mainland; in Norfolk a Red-throated Pipit and
a Little Bunting at Stiffkey; in Dorset a Red-throated Pipit at
Portland; on Scilly a Subalpine Warbler at Kitty Down on St.Mary's and in
Carmarthenshire a White-rumped Sandpiper at Kidwelly Quay. There were
also new American Golden Plovers on the Western Isles and at Dawlish in
Devon, plus a Lesser Yellowlegs in County Cork and a Glossy Ibis
in Northumberland.
On the Western Isles the Hermit Thrush remained on Barra, with other popular lingering rarities including the Solitary Sandpiper in Devon, the Lesser Yellowlegs in Oxfordshire, the Green Heron in Cornwall and the Dusky Warbler in Northumberland. |
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| - Pete Hayman, RBA | ||
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| Thursday 14th October 2010 | ||
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| A Hermit Thrush on Barra, Western Isles was discovered at Castlebay,
where it remained all afternoon. A Steppe Grey Shrike was at Loch of
Strathbeg RSPB, Aberdeenshire, and single Red-eyed Vireos were at Firkeel,
County Cork and on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. Other new arrivals single
Red-throated Pipits in Yorkshire, Cleveland, County Cork and Cornwall (2),
Lesser Yellowlegs at Port Meadow, Oxfordshire and a Red-breasted Goose
at Martin Mere WWT, Lancashire.
Shetland highlights included a Red-flanked Bluetail at Kergord, Olive-backed Pipit on Unst and Radde's Warbler at Toab, along with Daurian Shrike, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Coues's Arctic Redpoll, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Little Bunting, Rose-coloured Starling, Short-toed Lark, two Great Grey Shrikes, Red-breasted Flycatcher, five Yellow-browed Warblers, Barred Warbler and three Little Auks. Scilly highlights included Red-eyed Vireo, Subalpine Warbler, American Golden Plover, Tawny Pipit, two Red-breasted Flycacthers, Rose-coloured Starling, Melodious Warbler, Icterine Warbler, two Wrynecks, Common Rosefinch, five Yellow-browed Warblers and a Tundra Peregrine. Long staying rarity highlights included Solitary Sandpiper in Devon, Green Heron in Cornwall, Red-flanked Bluetail in Norfolk, Squacco Heron in Pembrokeshire and House Crow in County Cork. |
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| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
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| Wednesday 13th October 2010 | ||
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| On Scilly, an Olive-backed Pipit was present on St Mary's this
evening, whilst a Red-throated Pipit was seen on Tresco mid morning.
Another Red-throated Pipit was seen at Pendeen, Cornwall. Further east, a
Little Bunting was at Ramsgate, Kent, and an Ortolan Bunting was
at Landguard NR, Suffolk, whilst further north an American Golden Plover
was at Keiss, Highland, briefly and a Coues's Arctic Redpoll and a
Radde's Warbler were on Shetland. A King Eider was reported from
North Ronaldsay, Orkney and a White-rumped Sandpiper was seen in County
Kerry.
Lingering rarities included Myrtle Warbler in County Cork, Solitary Sandpiper in Devon, Green Heron in Cornwall, Western Black-eared Wheatear and Subalpine Warbler in Isles of Scilly, Pied Wheatear in Orkney, Squacco Heron in Pembrokeshire, Red-flanked Bluetail in Norfolk and Daurian Shrike, two Olive-backed Pipits, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and Western Bonelli's Warbler on Shetland. |
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| Tuesday 12th October 2010 | ||
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| Today's highlights on the Isles of Scilly were
both Pied and Western Black-eared Wheatear, Subalpine Warbler,
American Golden Plover, Little Bunting, Pectoral Sandpiper, two each of
Icterine Warbler, Red-breasted Flycatcher and Common Rosefinch,
four Wrynecks and five Yellow-browed Warblers. Meanwhile, on the
Shetland Isles were Daurian Shrike, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Olive-backed
Pipit, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll, Radde's Warbler, Dusky Warbler, Snow Goose,
Short-toed Lark, Red-breasted Flycatcher, two each of Buff-breasted
Sandpiper, Barred Warbler and Great Grey Shrike, three
Shorelarks, five Greenland Redpolls, 10 Yellow-browed Warblers
and 85 Lapland Buntings.
Elsewhere, rare passerines comprised, in County
Cork Myrtle Warbler, American Buff-bellied Pipit, Red-eyed Vireo,
Red-flanked Bluetail and House Crow, on the Western Isles two
Red-eyed Vireos together, in Lincolnshire a brief Black-eared Wheatear,
in Northumberland Red-flanked Bluetail, Olive-backed Pipit and Dusky
Warbler, in Norfolk a Red-flanked Bluetail, in North Yorkshire a
Dusky Warbler, in Hampshire two brief Penduline Tits, in Cleveland
a Red-throated Pipit and in London an Ortolan Bunting flew over.
Other rarities included the Green Heron
still in Cornwall, Solitary Sandpiper in Devon, Squacco Heron in
Pembrokeshire, Baird's Sandpiper in Essex, Wilson's Phalaropes
in both Norfolk and County Wicklow, Lesser Yellowlegs in County Galway,
King Eider in Suffolk, single Lesser Scaups in both Dumfries and
Warwickshire, Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk and Glossy Ibises in
Devon, Dumfries and County Tyrone.
Significant late news concerned a Common
Nighthawk present yesterday at Horden, County Durham but not found there
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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| Monday 11th October 2010 | ||
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| Today, on the Scilly Isles the Western Black-eared Wheatear remained as did
American Golden Plover, Tawny Pipit, Buff-breasted Sandpiper,
Pectoral Sandpiper, Common Rosefinch, Yellow-browed Warbler, two
Wrynecks, three Little Buntings and five each of both Red-breasted Flycatcher and
Lapland Bunting. On the Shetland Isles the American Buff-bellied Pipit remained alongside Blyth's Reed, Western Bonelli's, Radde's and Dusky Warblers, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll, Olive-backed Pipit, Spotted and Buff-breasted Sandpipers, Shorelark, two Common Rosefinches, three each of Barred Warbler and Great Grey Shrike, seven Greenland Redpolls, 13 Yellow-browed Warblers and 67 Lapland Buntings. Elsewhere, Nearctic landbirds comprised a Hermit Thrush still on the Western Isles, Myrtle Warblers in both County Cork and County Galway, Bobolink again in Pembrokeshire and Red-eyed Vireos in Cleveland and the Western Isles (2). Nearctic waders included Solitary Sandpiper (Devon), Baird's Sandpiper (Essex), Lesser Yellowlegs (County Wexford) and two Wilson's Phalaropes (Norfolk and County Wicklow). Rare passerines from Eurasia comprised five Red-flanked Bluetails (Lothian, Norfolk (2), Northumberland and the Orkney Isles), Paddyfield Warbler and Red-throated Pipit (together in County Clare), Penduline Tit (Devon), two Dusky Warblers (Northumberland and North Yorkshire), Little Bunting (East Yorkshire) and either a Pied or Eastern Black-eared Wheatear on the Orkney Isles. The best of the rest included the Green Heron still in Cornwall, House Crow in County Cork, Squacco Heron in Pembrokeshire, Lesser Scaup in Warwickshire, King Eiders in both Moray and Suffolk, three Ferruginous Ducks together in Suffolk, Ross's Goose in Dumfries and Glossy Ibises in Devon (2), Dumfries, Kent (7) and County Tyrone. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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