World Trip Reports

uk sightings Friday 3oth May 2003



ABERDEENSHIRE:- Loch of Strathbeg Spoonbill am from Tower Pool Hide + Wood Sand.

ABERDEENSHIRE:- Rattray Head Great Northern Diver off lighthouse.

ARGYLL & BUTE:- Loch Feochan 1s Glaucous Gull 3ml S.of Oban 11am at head of loch NM873246.

ARGYLL & BUTE:- Seil Island ad Rose-col Starling 9ml SW of Oban am on Balvicar Golfcourse NM767171.

BEDFORD:- Roxton Pit Common Sandpiper am + Snipe.

BEDFORD:- Warren Villas Black Tern 4pm on disused pit.

BEDFORD:- Willington GPs Common Sandpiper + Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Oystercatcher, Kingfisher, 11(9y)Shelduck.

BERKSHIRE:- Burnthouse Lane GPs 2 Hobby 9.05am + R.Plover, Buzzard, Lsr Whitethroat.

BERKSHIRE:- Greenham Common Turtle Dove on fence nr bunkers + 5(3y) R.Plover.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE:- Fen Drayton GPs 2 Nightingale on track adj to Moore Lake.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE:- Grafham Water s/pl Red-necked Grebe + Sanderling.

CHESHIRE:- Inner Marsh Farm Spotted Crake early pm on No.2 Lagoon on far righthand bank.

CLEVELAND:- Back Saltholme Pool 2 Little Stint am + 2 Barnacle Geese. No sign GwTeal.

CLEVELAND:- S.Gare Roseate Tern 10am on shingle island S.of lighthouse then flew N.+ 18 L.Tern, 39 S.Tern.

Co.WEXFORD:- Saltee Islands Short-toed Lark + Redstart.

CORNWALL:- btw Polgigga + Treen Black Kite am flew N.over B3315 with 5 Red Kites, then NE over Bartinney Downs at 11am.

CORNWALL:- Porthgwarra 3 Red Kite over am + 2 Red Kites over Lamorna.

Serin singing in gdns on E.slope + 8 Red Kite over together.

CORNWALL:- Restronguet Point Black Kite over mid am.

CORNWALL:- Swan Pool (SW802317) male Little Bittern SW of Falmouth 12.30pm at NW end.

DERBYSHIRE:- Pleasley Colliery Black Tern 3ml NW of Mansfield 11.35am on main pond SK494644.

DEVON:- Bowling Green Marsh Spoonbill 8.30am from hide + 1s Med Gull, 1s L.Gull.

DEVON:- Kingswear Iberian Chiffchaff 8.30am on Dart Valley Trail 50m past NT sign showing well. Park in trail c/pk nr anchor + take trail on R.before boatyard.

DORSET:- Abbotsbury Swannery Little Stint 8.30am at least on beach + 3 Sanderling.

EAST YORKSHIRE:- Blacktoft Sands RSPB 2 Spoonbill am from Townend Hide + L.Egret. Wood Sand from Ousefleet Hide.

ESSEX:- Old Hall Marshes 1s Little Gull 10.50am + Hobby, 2 Msh Harrier.

ESSEX:- Two Tree Island 2 Grasshopper Warbler at E.+W.ends of model aircraft flying strip.

GWYNEDD:- Bardsey Island Turtle Dove

HAMPSHIRE:- Southampton Docks warbler sp poss Melodious/Icterine Wblr singing by gate 4 mid am but elusive.

HAMPSHIRE:- Titchfield Haven NR Avocet + Barn Owl, 50+Blk-t Godwit, 25 Eider, 35 C.Scoter.

ISLE OF WIGHT:- St Catherines Pt 10+ Manx Shearwater past am + Common Scoter.

ISLES OF SCILLY:- St Mary's fem type Golden Oriole 2.30pm on path to Watermill Cove.

Marsh Warbler RPTD singing on THe Garrison by pottery.

ISLES OF SCILLY:- Tresco drk Black Duck 12.35pm at SE end of Great Pool + f Scaup, 2 Turtle Dove.

KENT:- 2ml NW of Dover Honey Buzzard NE over river at 6.35am.

KENT:- Dungeness 10 Mediterranean Gull at The Patch + 3 Turtle Dove in trapping area.

KENT:- New Hythe GPs 12 Nightingale + 17 Cetti's Wblr, 4 Lsr Whitethroat, 4 Turtle Dove.

KENT:- St.Margaret's Bay 2 Honey Buzzard over am + Honey Buzzard N.@ 9.30am over Whitfield.

KINROSS:- Vane Farm RSPB drk Garganey on flood + Scaup.

LANCASHIRE:- Leighton Moss RSPB 24(4y) Avocet + Little Stint, imm L.Gull.

LOTHIAN:- 1/4ml N.of Torness Pwr Stn male Grey-headed Wagtail in hayfield off A1 + Yellow Wagtail.

MERSEYSIDE:- Heswall fem Marsh Harrier E.over at 8.50am.

NORFOLK:- Blakeney Point Red-throated Pipit 2pm at The Hood but elusive.

Short-toed Lark 10.43am on flat area bhnd beach nr seawatch hide but mobile.

NORFOLK:- Cley NWT 1s fem American Wigeon am on N.Scrape + 2 L.Stint, Wood Sand, Ruff, Greenshank, 12 Blk-t Godwit, 30 R.Plover.

NORFOLK:- Gt Ryburgh Honey Buzzard from raptor watchpoint TF970256.

NORFOLK:- Stiffkey male Red-backed Shrike at seaward end of baitdiggers track but elusive TF983442. Go W.along seawall from Stiffkey Fen.

NORFOLK:- Stiffkey Fen 2 1s Little Gull

NORFOLK:- Titchwell RSPB Temminck's Stint 4.40pm from Parrinder Hide.

NORFOLK:- Weybourne Osprey E.@ 10.55am. Honey Buzzard Gt Rybergh Raptor Watchpoint 11.05-11.15am again.

NORTH YORKSHIRE:- Scalby Lodge pond Quail am singing in 2nd fld N.of pond + 4 L.Stint at pond.

NORTH YORKSHIRE:- Scarborough prob escaped Little Egret at North Bay in Northstead Manor Gardens, bird has blue ring + v.tame.

NORTHUMBERLAND:- E.Chevington Temminck's Stint 11.15am in NE cnr of N.Pool.

NORTHUMBERLAND:- Holy Island Icterine Warbler at The Snook.

NORTHUMBERLAND:- Longhirst Flashes Great White Egret 1ml ESE of Longhirst 8.40am. Off A197 W.of Ashington on minor rd N.for 1km to pools by left bend at NZ245888.

PEMBROKESHIRE:- Ramsey Island male Red-backed Shrike

SOMERSET:- Brean Down Hoopoe at E.end from 'diagonal track onto down'.

SOMERSET:- Weston-super-Mare Hoopoe RPTD S.@ swg wks at 8.30am. No fthr sign of Hoopoe at Brean Down.

SUFFOLK:- Minsmere RSPB Bittern 12-1.15pm on + off from Island Mere Hide + Bearded Tit, Cetti's Wblr, pr Marsh Harrier, Grn Woodpecker. No sign Woodchat Shrike by 1pm.

2 Spoonbill over early am + 5 L.Gull on scrape. No sign of Woodchat Shrike in brief search.

WARWICKSHIRE:- R.Arrow NR Hobby Alcester over am but no sign of Common Rosefinch in area.







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