Rare Bird Alert issue 6
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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.
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