Rare Bird Alert - Issue 33
November 16, 2007
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This is the UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday 13th November 2007, issued at 2000 hours and published in association with Rare Bird Alert Pagers (see www.rarebirdalert.co.uk for details) and utilising information gleaned from Regional Birdlines, websites, local email groups and individual observers.
In Suffolk, a party of 4 PENDULINE TITS is present for a third day at Dingle Marshes, Walberswick, showing well by the footpath between Little Dingle Hill and the shingle bank. Up to 9 Water Pipits remain in the area, as well as 5 Twite and a small herd of 6 Bewick’s Swans.
A very late Wryneck was recorded today on Bardsey Island (Caernarvon), whilst other new birds today included a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER on Seal Sands (Cleveland) and an adult RED-BREASTED GOOSE at Caerlaverock WWT (Dumfries & Galloway) (the latter site hosting some 10,400 of this year’s 29,815 Barnacle Geese on the Inner Solway, as well as an adult and juvenile Greenland White-fronted Goose).
In the Outer Hebrides, a pristine-plumaged but exceptionally tame juvenile grey morph GYRFALCON remains for a third day, favouring somewhat urban surroundings between Stornoway Ferry Terminal and the airport (Lewis) (some expert commentators have suggested that the bird exhibits some Saker genes which would mean the bird is an escape). It cannot be confirmed whether the bird is ringed or not or is bearing jesses…
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