PACIFIC SWIFT - East Yorks
June 22, 2008
Rare Bird Alert for Saturday 21st June
June 21, 2008
This is the UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert for Saturday 21st June 2008, issued at 2200 hours and published in association with Rare Bird Alert Pagers (see www.rarebirdalert.com for details) and utilising information gleaned from Regional Birdlines, www.Birdguides.com, local email groups and individual observers.
A first-summer male LESSER GREY SHRIKE remains for a second day SE of Eastfield Farm, 2 miles east of Hickling village (Norfolk) at TG 438 234 (Andy Kane). It is showing well on fence posts and in small Oak trees and is best accessed from the farm at the far end of Eastfield Road. The farmer has very kindly granted parking at the farm and after walking past the farm, continue east for 150 yards and then south for 250 yards to the isolated building. Special access is £1.00 per person.
Nearby, the long-staying male RED-BACKED SHRIKE continues in Clink Road, Sea Palling, showing well in bramble scrub and Willows west of the road, just beyond the last few cottages. On the north coast, 4 Eurasian Spoonbills (3 adults and an immature) remain on Cley NWT North Scrape.
Seabirds today included a CORY’S SHEARWATER off Kinnaird Head (Aberdeenshire) for 5 minutes this afternoon, 7 Balearic and 350 Manx Shearwaters off Portland Bill (Dorset) and 2 Sooty Shearwaters off Flamborough Head (East Yorks).
In Dumfries-shire, the rehabilitated COMMON CRANE continues to recover at Caerlaverock WWT after colliding with power lines last week, whilst in Forth, the male COMMON ROSEFINCH remains 5 miles NW of Crianlarich off the A82 at Tyndrum, where it is regularly visiting a bird feeder at the ”Real Food Cafe”.
The long-staying GLOSSY IBIS remains at Marshside Marsh RSPB (Merseyside), with a North American Green-winged Teal nearby at Inner Marsh Farm RSPB (Cheshire).
In Avon, an adult white-headed gull showing some characteristics of smithsonianus remains at Chew Valley Lake at Herriott’s Bridge, with the first-summer drake SURF SCOTER still off Dawlish Warren NNR (South Devon).
An adult ROSE-COLOURED STARLING was at Rhosneigr Golf Course (Anglesey) last night whilst shortly after dawn this morning, the singing male MELODIOUS WARBLER was controversially trapped and ringed a mile south of Oswaldtwistle near Jackhouse Reservoir (Lancs) and has not been seen or heard since.
In IRELAND, a drake LESSER SCAUP is at Kinnego Bay, Oxford Island NNR (Co. Armagh).
Citril Finch on Fair Isle
June 6, 2008
A male Citril Finch was found today on Fair Isle at the south end of The Haa, it has been singing and was present up to 7.55 PM when it flew off in the company of two Twite.
Fair Isle Information
Trumpeter Finch - Norfolk
June 3, 2008
A first-summer male TRUMPETER FINCH has been present on Blakeney Point (Norfolk) since Sunday 1st June, frequenting a rich area of Thrift flowers, 250 yards SE of the Seawatching Hide. This area is best observed from a distance from the dune-edge bordering the shingle beach, the finch being readily detected as it busily feeds on seeds on the open area of shingle beach at the base of the ridge.
To access this area, it is best to walk out at low tide along the beach, 2.2 miles west of the Cley West Bank Beach car park, taking between 27 minutes (if you run all the way) to 1 hour 15 minutes (if you take a more leisurely walk). There are many nesting Oystercatchers, Ringed Plovers and Little Terns on the upper shingle ridge west of the car park, so please take extreme care when walking away from the tideline. Alternatively, there are regular boat trips to Blakeney Point from Morston Quay, costing just £8.00 return, and these can be pre-arranged and booked with ‘Bishop’s Boats’ on 01263 740 753.transparent;”>This bird constitutes the first-ever Trumpeter Finch for Norfolk and represents the 13th British record
Previous Occurrences in Britain (see Evans, Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland, pages 465-466). Those highlighted # were widely twitched.
# 1971 Suffolk Minsmere Dunes, first-summer male, 30th May intermittently to 19th June (British Birds 67: 342 & 70: 45-49: Ibis 120: 410).
1971 Sutherland Handa Island, 8th-9th June (British Birds 67: 342 & 70: 45-49; Scottish Bird Report 1971: 160; 1973: 279).
1981 Orkney Sanday, male, 25th-29th May (British Birds 76: 523; Scottish Bird Report 1981: 49).
# 1984 West Sussex Church Norton, Pagham Harbour, first-summer male, 19th-23rd May, when taken by a Eurasian Sparrowhawk (British Birds 78: 581; 79: 299-300, 580).
1985 Essex Foulness Island, 21st September (British Birds 79: 580; 80: 499-500).
1987 Northumberland Holy Island, male, 1st August (British Birds 81: 589).
1992 Caithness Balnakeil, near Durness, male, 4th June (British Birds 86: 528-529, plates 198-199; Scottish Bird Report 1992: 67).
# 2005 Suffolk Landguard Point, first-summer male, 21st-26th May (British Birds 100: 97, plate 35).
# 2005 Kent Whitstable, male, 24th-25th May (British Birds 100: 97
2005 Kent North Foreland, male, 9th June (British Birds 100: 97).<
# 2005 Kent Dungeness Beach, male, 11th-13th June (British Birds 100: 97).
2008 Outer Hebrides North Rona, first-summer male, 25th May.
** Black Lark ** Mega Alert **
April 20, 2008
Record Image
April 20th 2008
Black Lark - Winterton Dunes - Norfolk - present till dusk
** Mega Alert **
April 20, 2008
 20th April 2008
Calandra Lark - Fair Isle - Shetland at 3.30 PM
LOCAL MEGA - ROSS’S GULL in Lancashire
March 31, 2008
An adult ROSS’S GULL is present at Marton Mere LNR, just east of Blackpool (Lancs), showing well from the Fylde Bird Hide. The bird was first seen shortly after 12.30 and is still present at 2.20pm.
ACCESS INSTRUCTIONS
From the M55 junction 4 follow diversion then signs to Blackpool Zoo. Once here, use the car park and walk east to the mere; DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH THE CARAVAN PARK.
Rare Bird Alert issue 6
March 11, 2008
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This is the British Birding Association Rare Bird Alert for Monday 10th March 2008, issued at 1700 hours and published in association with Rare Bird Alert Pagers (www.rarebirdalert.com) and utilising additional information gleaned from Birdguides, the Regional Birdline network, local email groups and websites and individual observers. All Irish rare bird news is by kind courtesy of John Coveney and BINS
One of the most intense storms of the winter arrived over Southern Britain overnight,
bringing heavy rain and gale force winds (reaching 95 mph on the Isle of Wight, 82 mph
on the Mumbles, Swansea and 77 mph on Scilly). Coinciding with high spring tides, the
south coast took some battering, particularly Devon and Cornwall. Despite its potency,
few birds of interest arrived in its wake, with seawatching in Dorset and South Devon
yielding little more than a handful of Balearic and Manx Shearwaters, Pomarine Skuas
and Sandwich Terns.
Download the full report Issue 6 - 2008
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