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Rare Bird Alert September 17th 2007

September 17, 2007

This is the UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert for Monday 17th September 2007, issued at 2300 hours and produced in association with Rare Bird Alert Pagers (www.rarebirdalert.com)

Following a very quiet weekend with the highlight of an evening lingering MADEIRAN STORM-PETREL off West Cornwall, today continued in much the same vein, despite a distinct change in the weather.

The bird of the day was a confiding dark morph juvenile LONG-TAILED SKUA a mile SW of East Bridgford and SE of Shelford Manor Farm (Notts) in the second field SW of the A6097. Access: Park by the minor road west of Newton and follow the Trent Valley way footpath northeastwards to view the fields. Several more Long-tailed Skuas were seen at coastal localities, including a juvenile lingering off Lowestoft North Beach (Suffolk) this evening.

The white morph SNOW GOOSE that arrived with Pink-footed Geese in Norfolk at the weekend (after being tracked heading south through Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) was present again at Holkham Freshmarsh and Burnham Norton today.

In Lincolnshire, the juvenile Red-necked Phalarope remains on the saltmarsh at Gibraltar Point NNR, whilst SPOTTED CRAKES include singles at Farlington Marsh (Hants), Ladywalk NR (Warks) and on the Albion Pool, Ingrebourne Valley, Rainham (Essex) (situated 200 yards east of the Dovers Corner roundabout north of the A1306). Continuing PECTORAL SANDPIPERS include juveniles at Bishop Middleham Castle Lake (Co. Durham), Cliffe Pools Flamingo Pool (Kent) and Hickling Rush Hills Scrape (Norfolk) (2), whilst a new one arrived on Fair Isle (Shetland) and another at Lower Moors, St Mary’s (Scilly), with BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS including 3 on Tiree (Argyll) (at Loch a’Phuill) and 2 on St Mary’s Airfield (Scilly). On Shetland, the KILLDEER was present again at Pool of Virkie.

A juvenile PURPLE HERON continues at Neare Heath NR (Somerset) with GREAT WHITE EGRETS on Mockbeggar Lake (Hants) and at Leighton Moss RSPB (Lancs) and Marshside Marsh RSPB (Merseyside). A drake LESSER SCAUP remains present for a third day at Rutland Water Egleton Reserve Lagoon 1 (from Teal Hide).

A juvenile CASPIAN GULL remains at Dungeness Beach (Kent) (Dave Walker), whilst a first-winter was present again in Brighton Marina (East Sussex) this evening (Ian Whitcombe).

On the Isles of Scilly over the weekend, a mobile first-winter CITRINE WAGTAIL visited St Mary’s (Pelistry Lane), St Martin’s and Tresco (football pitches), whilst the juvenile SPOTTED SANDPIPER remained on Porthellick Pool. A Temminck’s Stint was at Colyford Common LNR (South Devon) and the juvenile BAIRD’S SANDPIPER remained at Esha Ness (Shetland).

Rare Passerines were few and far between, the pick of the bunch being a showy Barred Warbler at Winterton South Dunes (Norfolk), a few Wrynecks (including a garden feeder in Worcestershire), 7 Red-backed Shrikes (mainly in the Northern Isles) and a couple of Ortolan Buntings (in Dorset & Cornwall).

In IRELAND, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS continue to arrive on the NW winds, with two juveniles at Tacumshin (Co. Wexford) and up to 3 birds at Myroe Levels, Lough Foyle (Co. Derry). The juvenile WILSON’S PHALAROPE remained at Belfast Lough (Co. Antrim) until 16th.

Seawatching at Bridges of Ross (Co. Clare) yielded a total of 14 Sabine’s Gulls, 9 Leach’s Petrels and 7 Pomarine Skuas on 16th.

Written by Lee · Filed Under UK400 Club Rare Bird Alerts 

















































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