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UK Sightings - Tuesday 3 December 2002 (1 Viewer)

ralph

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Thanks as always to http://www.fpoint.co.uk and BIRDCALL for today's sighting info.

Last update from Ralph @ 0716hrs (4/12)

ABERDEENSHIRE 10 Lapland Bunting. Middleton of Rattray - 1ml SW of Rattray Head, in setaside.

ANGLESEY L.Auk Pt Lynas, W.in 1hr +4 GNDiver, 33 RTDiver, 2k Auk sp.

ANGLESEY L.Auk past Holyhead Breakwater Quarry CP +2 GNDiver, 67 RTDiver, Manxi.

ARGYLE & BUTE ad Red-breasted Goose. Loch Gruinart - Islay, at Gruinart Farm NR278682.

BEDFORDSHIRE Firecrest. The Lodge, Sandy, + Crossbill over Sandy Heath.

BEDFORDSHIRE 3(2drk) Mandarin. Kempston Mill, pm.

BERKSHIRE 2drk Smew Wraysbury GPs on Heron Lake complex + 5 Ruddy Duck.

BERKSHIRE 2 Snipe Lavell's Lake on Tern Scrape 8.15am.

BERKSHIRE Red-necked Grebe Woolhampton G.Pits showing v.well.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE 730+Fieldfare Farcet Fen pm + 11 Redwing.

CARMARTHENSHIRE 1w Long-billed Dowitcher Penclacwydd WWT late a/noon.

CHESHIRE Red Kite Wilboarclough 2.20pm 1/2ml S.of Stanley Arms Pub.

CHESHIRE 2 Water Pipit Neston Old Quay 11am.

CLEVELAND 3 Crossbill. Skelton Castle, S.over.

CLEVELAND Black Redstart. Middlesbrough, 2.30pm at Corus Steelworks.

CLWYD BTDiver past Little Orme + 32 RTDiver.

CLWYD 8 Snow Bunting Pensarn 1/2ml W.of beach c/pk.

CLWYD 16 Snow Bunting on Kinmel Bay beach.

CLWYD fem Black Redstart. Towyn, 10am bhnd Knightly's Fun Fair + 4 Stonechat.

CLWYD 20 Red-breasted Merganser Rhyl Marine Lake am. Fem Black Redstart 1/2ml W.of fun fair at 10.15am so mobile in area.

CORNWALL 1w Forster's Tern Hayle est on Carnsew Basin.

CORNWALL 3w Ring-billed Gull. 1/4ml SW of Sennen, late am in horse fld N.of A30 opp B3315 jctn (SW353251).

CORNWALL juv Rose-c Starling Goldsithney, 1ml E.of Marazion, N.of B3286 W.of Crown Pub (SW545309).

CUMBRIA ad Ross's Goose. S.of Cardurnock - 4.5ml SW of Bowness on Solway, 12.10pm with 700 Barnacle Geese.

DORSET 2w Med Gull Corfe Mullen Tip +12 YlGull.

DORS Spoonbill Brownsea Island lagoon from Birdboat +800 Avocet, LtDuck, RTDiver, 2 GNDiver, 2 Eider.

EAST YORKSHIRE 1w.f RnDuck N.Cave GPs am on Pit.5 SE886328.

EAST YORKSHIRE 2+Short-eared Owls Bempton RSPB.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE Ring-billed Gull. Bishop's Cleeve - 3ml N.of Cheltenham, late am but no details.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE Little Bunting. Forest of Dean, nooncnr Tidenham Chase at The Park (ST557993) + 20 Crossbill.

GREATER MANCHESTER 2(ad,1w)Med Gull Audenshaw Resr in evening roost.

GREATER MANCHESTER 20 Brambling Church Lane, Marple.

HIGHLAND Great Grey Shrike. 1ml W.of Nethy Bridge, still on wires over B970 at Mondhuie Wood (NH984207).

HIGHLAND 1w LbDowitcher Inver Bay, 5ml E.of Tain, pm at NH860830.

HIGHLAND drk GwTeal Alturlie on S.shore of Moray Firth. Drk Smew Loch Flemington.

KENT 6 Slavonian Grebe. Whitstable Bay, offshore pm.

KENT 2 GNDiver Whitstable Bay, 11am offshore.

KENT 2 RTDiver Scotney GPs.

KENT Spoonbill. Funton Creek, 1pm then flew upriver.

KENT Hen Harrier Dungeness RSPB + 8+Smew. 9 Whooper Swan on Denge Marsh.

KENT Little Auk. St.Margaret's , 11am at least close inshore.

LANCASHIRE 10,000 Woodpigeon Darwen, over in 1hr am, moving E.+ SE.

LANCASHIRE 2 Hawfinch Woodwell, Silverdale, nr house called 'Fir Trees'.

LANCASHIRE 2(ad,1w)L.Gull N.past Starr Gate +Shag.

LANCASHIRE 40+Twite Heysham N.Hbr Wall Mound + 4 RTDiver, 2 Guillemot.

LINCOLNSHIRE Great White Egret. 1.5ml NW of Donna Nook - at Grainthorpe Haven, 2pm.

LINCOLNSHIRE 100+ Snow Bunting. Donna Nook, + 100+Twite, 57 Goldeneye.

LINCOLNSHIRE 1w Rose-col Starling. RAF Cranwell - 3ml NW of Sleaford, in garden of 10 Flowerdown Avenue.

LINCOLNSHIRE 5 Siskin Lincoln Brayford Pools nr railway box.

LINCOLNSHIRE j RlBuzzard Worlaby Carrs, 3ml N.of Brigg, 12.40pm off Carr Lane in stubble fld.

LONDON 1w Caspian Gull. Beddington SF, RPTD + Water Rail.

MERSEYSIDE 3 Snow Bunting Ainsdale just N.of Shore Road.

MERSEYSIDE Snow Bunting New Brighton prom +6 Purple Sand W.of lifeguard stn.

MERSEYSIDE Red-throated Diver. Crosby Marina, on main lake nr sluice gates.

NORFOLK ringtail Hen Harrier Cley, 11.04am on bank W.of West Bank.

NORFOLK Firecrest. Gt Yarmouth cemy - S.Section, pm.

NORFOLK 11 Med Gull Gt Yarmouth seafront btw piers.

NORFOLK 2 RTDiver Wells Hbr +Shag.

NORFOLK Slav Grebe off Titchwell RSPB +4k Gldn Plover, BTDiver+RnGrebe RPTD.

NORFOLK 65+ Shorelark. Holkham Gap, + 90 Snow Bunting, 50 Twite, 10 V.Scoter. 35 European WfGeese E.of Lady Anne's Drive.

NORFOLK ad Black-winged Stilt. Titchwell RSPB, + Sp Redshank, L.Egret, Stonechat, 11 Ruff, 5 Pintail.

NORFOLK 70 Siskin UEA Broad.

NORFOLK f RcPochard Whitlingham CP Little Broad.

NORFOLK L.Gull Northrepps in fld by airstrip.

NORTH YORKSHIRE Y/DAY Pallas's Wblr Castle Hills, 4ml N.of Castleford just NW of A1/A63/B1222 jctn, 10am E.side of wood with tits + Goldcrests (SE453323).

NORTH YORKSHIRE 6 DbBrent Geese Gt Langton. 40 Crossbill Cod Beck Resr.

OXFORDSHIRE Chiffchaff. University Parks, at lunchtime.

SOUTH YORKSHIRE 250+Brambling Ingbirchworth Resr in beech trees on S.shore.

STRATHCLYDE 3w Iceland Gull. Baron's Haugh RSPB - 1ml SE of Motherwell, am.

SUFFOLK Snow Bunting. Minsmere RSPB, + 4 European WfGeese.

SUFFOLK Firecrest. Brandon CP, 11.40am by ornamental lake with tits. Are we allowed to say that?

SURREY Red-breasted Merganser. Staines Resr - S.Basin, + 450 Ruddy Duck.

SURREY Gt Grey Shrike Thursley Common still + ringtail Hen Harrier, Merlin.

SURREY 2 Green Sand Walton Resr + 2 Common Sand, Goosander.

SUSSEX LtDuck W.past Galley Hill, Bexhill. Black Redstart Ravenside Retail Park.

WEST GLAMORGAN 1w Ivory Gull. Mumbles Head Swansea, 10am 1/4ml WNW of Mumbles Pier on beach + 4(3ad,1w)Med Gull.

WEST GLAMORGAN 1w Surf Scoter Black Pill, Swansea Bay, 3.20pm with Eider though distant.

WEST GLAMORGAN drk Redhead. Kenfig Pool (SS797815).

WEST YORKSHIRE 30 Goosander Bretton CP +3 Barnacle Geese.

WEST YORKSHIRE 2 Mealy Redpoll Pontefract, RPTD in disused nursery by racecse +16 Goosander.

WILDLIFE Grey Seal. LINCS, now 650+pups at Donna Nook wardened site.

 
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