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uk sightings wednesday 14th may 2003



ABERDEENSHIRE:- Loch of Strathbeg Spoonbill from Tower Pool Hide.

AYRSHIRE:- Blackcraig Hill 3 Dotterel 4.5ml SSE of New Cumnock by fence N.of trig point NS647066.

BEDFORD:- Tottenhoe 3 Turtle Dove + 3 Lsr Whitethroat, Corn Bunting.

BEDFORD:- Willington GPs Cuckoo + Lsr Whitethroat, Garden Wblr.

BERKSHIRE:- Cold Harbour male Blue-headed Wagtail pm calling from tops of beans for 5mins before flying off.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE:- Little Marlowe GPs 3 Hobby in area pm.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE:- Dog-in-a-Doublet w/pl Red-throated Diver on R.Nene downstream of sluice (bird has deformed bill).

CAMBRIDGESHIRE:- Fen Drayton GPs Black Kite over early pm + poss dropped at N.end of reserve.

2 Cuckoo am + 2 Nightingale, 16 C.Tern, esc.Purple Swamphen (by river at TL348704).

CAMBRIDGESHIRE:- Priors Fen Little Egret at E.end of E.Pit + 24 Yellow Wag, 3 Corn Bunting, 2 Wheatear. 13 Wheatear Blackbush + Whinchat, 60 Yellow Wag, 8 Corn Bunting, Cuckoo.

CARMARTHENSHIRE:- WWT National Wetlands Centre 2 Spoonbill Llanelli 11.15am from British Steel Hide.

CHESHIRE:- Inner Marsh Farm Bar-tailed Godwit + 900 Blk-t Godwit.

CHESHIRE:- Moore NR drk Ferruginous Duck 6.30am on Manchester Ship Canal off Halfway House.

CLWYD:- Conwy RSPB 8 Whimbrel + 2 Common Sand.

DEVON:- Bowling Green Marsh Glossy Ibis 1.30pm + 2 Spoonbill on Exe est.

2 Spoonbill still.

DORSET:- Portland Bill Purple Sandpiper + 13 Spotted Fly, 2 Redstart. GNDiver past + 2 A.Skua.

EAST YORKSHIRE:- Swinemoor Common 2 Temminck's Stint NE of Beverley 10.40am on flood from stone bridge TA056409.

White Wagtail + Greenshank, LRP, Blk-t Godwit, 2 feral PfGeese.

HAMPSHIRE:- Fleet Pond Little Ringed Plover in Sandy bay til 10.45am then flushed + 2 Egyptian Geese.

HIGHLAND:- Noss Head Crane by Wick airport x-roads btw Wick + Noss Hd.

KENT:- Dungeness RSPB Great Reed Warbler 10.20am singing on Hooker's Pit nr viewing ramp but elusive.

2(ad,2s) Mediterranean Gull 9.15am, no sign Little Bittern.

KENT:- Sandwich Icterine Warbler pm nr obs in scrub by bridge 100m S.of quayside.

LANCASHIRE:- Leighton Moss RSPB Savi's Warbler 8.40am showing well to right of Tim Jackson Hide.

LEICESTERSHIRE:- Eyebrook Resr Temminck's Stint 7am at N.end W.of inflow.

LINCOLNSHIRE:- Welland Bank Pits Turtle Dove am + Common Sand.

NORFOLK:- 2.5ml WSW of Holt 2 Honey Buzzard 10.20am RPTD high NW over A148 NE of Sharrington.

NORFOLK:- 3.5ml NE of Wisbech Quail singing S.of A47 just SW of Wapole Highway at 4.10am not since TF510130.

NORFOLK:- Blakeney Hbr 3 Crane 11am circling high + drifting W.

NORFOLK:- Cley Curlew Sandpiper on Arnolds Marsh + 2 RbMerg.

NORFOLK:- Cley NWT 3 Crane drifted W.over E.Bank at 10.45am.

NORFOLK:- Paston eagle spp S.over church at 2.25pm.

NORFOLK:- Snettisham RSPB Ring Ouzel

NORFOLK:- Stiffkey Fen 3 1s Little Gull + Common Sand.

NORFOLK:- Swanton Novers 2 Honey Buzzard 11am in display from watchpoint then drifted S.(TG010303).

NORTH YORKSHIRE:- Filey Dams NR 2(1drk) Garganey

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE:- Gringley Carr 15 Dotterel am in fld W.of Carr Ln.

OXFORDSHIRE:- Farmoor Resr Little Stint noon on tern raft on FI with 12 Dunlin + gets on causeway, also LRP, R.Plover.

OXFORDSHIRE:- Stratfield Brake, Kidlington 2 Little Ringed Plover am on scrape + 2 C.Tern, 2 Redshank.

SOMERSET:- Chew Valley Lake drk Ring-necked Duck 9.35am on Herriott's Pool.

STAFFORDSHIRE:- Apedale CP male Pied Flycatcher nr entrance gate at top end of Watermills Wood.

SUFFOLK:- Blyth est ringtail Hen Harrier W.of Southwold at Reydon Marshes + SEOwl.

SUFFOLK:- Stutton Mill Curlew Sandpiper E.of Seafield Bay on Stour est at hi tide + 66 Knot, 500 Dunlin, 5 Blk-t Godwit. LRP on water meadow.

SUFFOLK:- Walberswick Short-eared Owl over Corporation Marsh.

SUSSEX:- Brighton Marina Roseate Tern past am.

SUSSEX:- Selsey Bill 1s Glaucous Gull E.@ 9.20am.

WARWICKSHIRE:- Wormleighton 1s male Red-footed Falcon RPTD N.over late am + Honey Buzzard RPTD NW, Marsh Harrier NE.

WEST MIDLANDS:- Sandwell Valley Hobby pm + Redstart, LRP, R.Plover.

WEST YORKSHIRE:- Blackmoorfoot Resr fem Dotterel 4.55pm in large sheepfld (3rd fld to W.of Resr), view from lane opp Will o'Nats Pub.

WILDLIFE:- BEDS 2 Duke of Burgundy Fritillary at Totternhoe in the quarry.

WORCESTERSHIRE:- Gwen Finch NR 2 Hobby + Yellow Wag, 2 Dunlin.







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