Recent reports Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Harry Hussey

This summary of unchecked reports covers Plover in Ireland, but other highlights mid August to early October 2011. included dozens of Semipalmated Sand- pipers, Western Sandpiper, Greater Yellow - Headlines There were some exciting legs, Hudsonian Whimbrel, Upland Sandpiper, seabirds at the end of August and into early scores of Buff-breasted Sandpipers including September, including a Madeiran Storm- a record-breaking flock of 28 at Tacumshin, petrel, Yelkouan and two Macaronesian five Least Sandpipers, a Wilson’s Snipe and Shearwaters, several Fea’s-type Petrels and a two Solitary Sandpipers. Black-browed Albatross, together with some The period was not without any eastern impressive movements of the more common delights either, with Shetland notching up a species. Birders then held their breath as Siberian Blue Robin (sadly, seen alive only several deep depressions crossed the by a cat on Foula), Pallas’s Grass hopper and Atlantic, particularly the aftermath of the Eastern Olivaceous Warblers, Black-headed former Hurricane Katia on 12th September. and Yellow-breasted Buntings, Pechora and The chief prizes soon revealed themselves Olive-backed Pipits and two Isabelline with Northern Waterthrush, Black-and- Shrikes. Eastern waders included a Long-toed white Warbler and Baltimore Oriole in Scilly, Stint in Sussex, Red-necked Stint in Ireland Swainson’s and Grey-cheeked Thrushes in and three Sharp-tailed Sandpipers. In most Shetland, half a dozen widely scattered Red- years, the record-breaking numbers of Pallid eyed Vireos and six Buff-bellied Pipits, and a Harriers (which outnumbered Montagu’s!) Sandhill Crane which gave itself up to the would have stolen the headlines, but the masses as it toured the east coast of widespread influx, virtually doubling the Scotland and (later) England. Nearctic previous British and Irish totals, merely acted waders arrived in astounding numbers and as a backdrop to a host of other very exciting variety too, the best being a Semipalmated species.

American Wigeon Anas americana Records from Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris Herefordshire, Moray & Nairn, Orkney and Outer Spurn (Yorkshire), 1st September. Zino’s/Fea’s Hebrides. Black Duck Anas rubripes Returning Petrel Pterodroma madeira/feae Seven Heads (Co. birds, Sruhill Lough, Achill (Co. Mayo), 14th Cork), 25th August; Flamborough Head (York- August to October; Ventry (Co. Kerry), 3rd Sep- shire), 31st August; North Ronaldsay (Orkney), 1st tember. Blue-winged Teal Anas discors Saltholme September; Bridges of Ross (Co. Clare), 3rd, 12th Pools (Cleveland), long-stayer to 1st October; and 14th September; Old Head of Kinsale (Co. Thursley Common (Surrey), 17th August; Kirkin- Cork), 4th September; Mizen Head (Co. Cork), tilloch (Clyde), 10th September; Shannon Airport 5th September; Lowestoft North Denes (Suffolk), Lagoon (Co. Clare), 14th–18th September; St 15th September; Sheringham (Norfolk), 16th Sep- Mary’s (Scilly), 18th–21st September; Loop Head tember; Frinton-on-Sea (Essex), 16th September. (Co. Clare), 21st September; North Bull (Co. Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis Porthgwarra Dublin), returning bird, 24th September to (Cornwall), 2,003 past in ten hours, 3rd Sep- October; Inch Lake (Co. Donegal), 24th Sep- tember. Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus 400 past tember. Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca Records Lossiemouth (Moray & Nairn), 18th September. from Avon, Berkshire, Lincolnshire, Northamp- Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus Portland tonshire and Suffolk. Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis (Dorset), 10,000 past on both 30th and 31st Fair Isle (Shetland), 7th–8th October; Marden August. Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus Quarry (Northumberland), 9th–10th October. In Devon, 238 past Start Point, 160 past Prawle King Eider Somateria spectabilis Wester Quarff Point and 304 past Berry Head, all 6th September, (Shetland), 3rd September; Burghead (Moray & then 316 past Orcombe Point, 11th September, 261 Nairn), 23rd–25th September and 3rd October. past Start Point, 12th September; elsewhere, 283 Black Scoter Melanitta americana Blackdog/ past Porthgwarra on 18th and 202 on 24th Sep- Murcar (North-east Scotland), long-stayer to 4th tember. Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan October. Cley (Norfolk), 29th August. Macaronesian

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Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus Titchwell (Norfolk), 8th–12th September; Malmesbury (Wilt- shire), 13th September. Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Records from Dorset, Somerset and Sussex. Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides Studland Heath (Dorset), 21st September. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis In August, records from Dorset, Essex, Gwent, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Leicestershire & Rutland, and Sussex, with further arrivals during September in Devon, Essex, Kent, Norfolk, Somerset, Suffolk and Outer Hebrides. Brydon Thomason Brydon Great White Egret Ardea alba 377. Juvenile Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus, Fetlar, Shetland, Records from Buckinghamshire, September 2011. Carmarthenshire, Cheshire & Shearwater Puffinus baroli Bridges of Ross, 21st and Wirral (two), Cleveland, Cornwall, Cumbria, 22nd August; Kilcummin Head (Co. Mayo), 18th Dorset (two), Gloucestershire, Gower, Hampshire September. Wilson’s Storm-petrel Oceanites ocean- (two), Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire & N icus Bridges of Ross, singles 5th, 6th, 11th and 17th Merseyside, Lincolnshire (two), Norfolk (at least September, four 12th and 14th September, three two), Northumberland, Somerset (three), Stafford- 13th September, two 18th September; Brandon shire, Suffolk (two), Sussex, Wiltshire and York- Point (Co. Kerry), singles 6th and 18th September, shire (two). Purple Heron Ardea purpurea two 13th September; from pelagics off Scilly, two Long-stayer in Kent to 18th August, with other 12th August, single 20th, at least four 21st, three August records from Dorset and Suffolk, and then 25th August, five 8th September, three 15th Sep- in September from Northumberland. Black Stork tember; Pendeen (Cornwall), one 12th September, Ciconia nigra Beachy Head (Sussex), 19th August. three, 13th, singles on 17th and 18th September; at Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus One on ship 30 km sea 200 km south of Galley Head (Co. Cork), 21st SSE of Galley Head, 27th September; Kidwelly September. Madeiran Storm-petrel Oceanodroma (Carmarthenshire), 29th September to 2nd castro Pendeen, 6th September. October; Stanpit Marsh (Dorset), 30th September, Paul French Paul 378. Subadult Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis, Boyton Marshes, Suffolk, October 2011.

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25th September; Black Down Alex Lees (Somerset), 28th September to 8th 379. Juvenile Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus, October; Sands of Forvie 1st Ventry, Co. Kerry, September 2011.

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October; Tresco, 4th–9th October; Tacumshin, 8th October. White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis About 21 were seen in Britain, in Argyll, Cheshire & Wirral, Cornwall (three), Gower, Highland, Kent, Lothian, Moray & Nairn, Norfolk (two), North-east Scotland (two), Outer Hebrides (seven). A further 30 were recorded in Ireland, between 15th August and 7th October, with sightings in Co. Clare, Co. Donegal, Co. Galway

John Carter (four), Co. Kerry (eight), 380. Juvenile Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla, Davidstow, Co. Mayo (five), Co. Offaly Cornwall, October 2011. and Co. Wexford (10). Valley Lake (Avon), 12th–18th September; Drift Baird’s Sandpiper Calidris bairdii In Britain: Loch of Resr (Cornwall), 13th–18th September; South Uist Strathbeg, 23rd August; Hayle Estuary (Cornwall), (Outer Hebrides), 15th–17th and 21st–23rd Sep- 30th August to 11th September; West Burra (Shet- tember, then 4th October, with two 5th–6th, one land), 30th August; Islay (Argyll), 4th–5th Sep- to 7th October; Slimbridge (Gloucestershire), tember; St Agnes, 8th–22nd September; Lewis, 18th–19th and 25th–29th September; Pennington 13th September; Pennington Marshes, 14th–18th Marshes (Hampshire), 24th–30th September; September; North Uist (Outer Hebrides), 21st Sep- Black Hole Marsh/Seaton (Devon), 24th Sep- tember; Fair Isle, 24th September; Tiree (Argyll), tember to 3rd October; Cliffe Pools, 25th Sep- 26th–27th September; Saltholme Pools, 28th Sep- tember; Harris (Outer Hebrides), 25th–26th tember; South Uist, 4th–5th October. A further 12 September; Ythan Estuary (North-east Scotland), were recorded in Ireland, from 21st August to 3rd 27th September to 4th October; Coalhouse Fort October: in Co. Cork (two), Co. Donegal, Co. (Essex), 1st–9th October; Davidstow (Cornwall), Galway (two), Co. Kerry, Co. Mayo (three), Co. 2nd–6th October. A staggering 56 were recorded in Meath and Co. Wexford (two), all singles except Ireland, between 7th August and 8th October; for two on Achill Island. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper there was a maximum of four at Achill Island (Co. Mayo) on 21st–30th Sep- tember, while eight other sites held two or more birds. Western Sand- piper Calidris mauri Glen- behy (Co. Kerry), 7th October. Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis Ballinskelligs (Co. Kerry), 1st–3rd August. Long- toed Stint Calidris sub- minuta Weir Wood Resr (Sussex), 15th–21st Sep- tember. Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla Far- lington Marshes (Hamp- shire), 8th September; Foula (Shetland), 14th–

23rd September; Carra- Jim Nicolson hane (Co. Kerry), 26th 381. Juvenile Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla, Foula, Shetland, September to 3rd September 2011.

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Calidris acuminata Shannon Airport Lagoon, 26th–27th August; Tacumshin, 29th August to 9th September; Great - ham Creek (Cleveland), 9th September. Buff- breasted Sandpiper Tryn- gites subruficollis The first of about 75 in Britain was seen on South Uist on 10th August. About 50 were seen in England, 17 in Scotland and seven in Wales, with c. 50 found during 1st–20th Sep- tember. Sightings came Martin Goodey 382. Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda, St Mary’s, Scilly, from virtually all coastal October 2010. areas, with Cornwall, Scilly (including a flock of eight), Lincolnshire and in Britain, while an unidentified dowitcher was at the Outer Hebrides doing particularly well. In Lough Foyle (Co. Derry) on 9th September: Ireland at least 89 were recorded, from 23rd Stithians Resr, 14th–28th September; Baron’s August to 7th October. There were small groups at Haugh (Clyde), 17th September to 4th October; several sites: the 15 at Loop Head on 15th Sep- Oare Marshes (Kent), 18th September; Freiston tember was particularly notable, while at Shore (Lincoln shire), 29th September to 4th Tacumshin three on 4th September increased to an October; Kidwelly, 29th September to 9th October; unprecedented 28 on 27th September. Wilson’s Lossie Estuary (Moray & Nairn), 2nd–6th Snipe Gallinago delicata St Mary’s, from about 25th October; Frampton Marsh (Lincoln shire), 4th September to 9th October. Great Snipe Gallinago October; East Chevington (North umber land), media Fair Isle, 28th August to 3rd September, two, 5th October; Davidstow, 7th–8th October; another 18th–22nd September; Cunningsburgh Caerlaverock (Dumfries & Galloway), 7th–10th (Shetland), 29th September. Long-billed Dow- October; Lochlea (Ayrshire), 9th October. itcher Limnodromus scolopaceus About 12 were seen Hudsonian Whimbrel Numenius (phaeopus) Richard Richard Chandler 383. Common Redshank Tringa totanus (left) and juvenile Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes, Drift Reservoir, Cornwall, September 2011.

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hudsonicus Mizen Head, 20th–25th September. (Cornwall), 23rd August; Lenadoon Point (Co. Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda St Mary’s, Sligo), 18th September. Little Gull Hydrocoloeus 8th– 10th October. Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macu- minutus Impressive gatherings off the Yorkshire larius Plym Estuary (Devon), 3rd September to 9th coast included 2,300 30th August and 4,300 11th October; St Mary’s, 13th–14th Sep tember; Lydney September off Hornsea; 5,200 past Flamborough (Glouces tershire), 15th–26th Sep tember; Drift Head in 3.5 hours 10th September and 6,675 there Resr, 15th September; Achill Island, 23rd Sep- on 11th September; and 3,900 off Grimston in one tember; Chew Valley Lake, 24th September to 9th hour, 25th September. Bonaparte’s Gull Chroico- Oct ober; North Uist, 4th October; Lehid Harbour cephalus philadelphia Whitburn, long-stayer to 11th (Co. Kerry), 5th October; Knockadoon Head (Co. September, same Sunderland, 11th August and 3rd Cork), 6th October. Solitary Sandpiper Tringa soli- September, also Seaburn (all Co. Durham), 28th taria St Mary’s, 14th September to 6th October; August; Lewis, 14th–19th August; Dornoch (High- Nateby (Lancashire & N Merseyside), 2nd–6th land), 14th–17th August; Dawlish Warren October. Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca (Devon), 29th–30th August; Berneray (Outer Wadebridge (Cornwall), 12th–13th September. Hebrides), 25th August; Blennerville (Co. Kerry), Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes St Agnes, 26th September; Weir Wood Resr, 3rd and 7th 11th–13th September; Rosscarbery (Co. Cork), October; Holm (Orkney), 6th–9th October. 12th–13th September; Drift Resr, 14th–27th Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida Rainham September; Tresemple Pool (Cornwall), 21st Marshes (Essex/Greater London), 26th August; September to 7th October; Glasson (Lancashire & Loch of Strathbeg, 12th September. ‘American N Merseyside), 24th September to 4th October; Black Tern’ Chlidonias niger surinamensis Covenham St Mary’s, 25th September to 10th October; Resr (Lincolnshire), 17th September to 5th Findhorn Bay (Moray & Nairn), 25th September October. White-winged Black Tern Chlidonias and 6th October; Hartlepool Headland (Cleve- leucopterus August records from Cambridgeshire, land), 30th September; Tacumshin, 1st–2nd Cleveland, Greater London, Kent and Yorkshire, October; Tresco, 3rd–9th October; South Uist, with others during September from Essex, Co. 6th–9th October; St Clement (Cornwall), 9th Meath, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire and Co. October. Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis Grove Wexford. Ferry (Kent), 25th August. Wilson’s Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor Seal Sands/Greenabella Marsh Snowy Owl Bubo scandiacus Lewis, long-stayer to (Cleveland), 13th–14th August; Belfast Lough (Co. 17th September. Alpine Swift Apus melba Bruton Antrim), 14th–26th August; Douglas Estuary (Co. (Somerset), 20th–22nd August; Donaghadee (Co. Cork), 17th–20th September. Down), 20th August; Laxo (Shetland), 29th Sep- tember, same Cunningsburgh, 1st–2nd October. Laughing Gull Larus atricilla Torsa (Argyll), 14th Pallid Swift Apus pallidus Flamborough Head, 2nd September. Franklin’s Gull Larus pipixcan Helford October. European Bee-eater Merops apiaster Scilly, long-stayer to 24th September; six Ashbocking (Suffolk), 21st August; singles in September from Denbighshire and Y o r k s h i r e . Wryneck Jynx torquilla Wide- spread influx of at least 100 during late August/early September, mainly coastal, including 19 on Fair Isle on 24th August. A further 13 were recorded in

Graham Graham Catley Ireland, from 3rd 384. Juvenile ‘American Black Tern’ Chlidonias niger surinamensis, September to 4th Covenham Reservoir, Lincolnshire, September 2011. October.

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Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus St Mary’s, 13th–21st fonshire), 1st September; Mizen Head, 11th–14th and 25th–27th September, with a second on 21st September; Fetlar, 12th September; St David’s Head only; Barra, 20th–30th September; Nanjizal (Corn- (Pembrokeshire), 3rd October. Subalpine Warbler wall), 22nd–28th September; Mizen Head, Sylvia cantillans Holland Haven (Essex), 14th–20th 2nd–4th October; Lewis, 9th October. August; Crookhaven (Co. Cork), 2nd–5th October; St Mary’s, 4th–10th October. Pallas’s Grasshopper Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus Levenwick, Warbler Locustella certhiola Fair Isle, 30th 2nd–5th October, Hillwell (both Shetland), September. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Hippolais 6th–9th October. Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor pallida Fair Isle, 2nd–3rd September. Booted Tollesbury (Essex), 17th–18th September; Laxo, Warbler Hippolais caligata Grutness, 24th–26th 25th–29th September. Woodchat Shrike Lanius August, Unst, 28th August, Scatness, 3rd September senator On Scilly, three on St Mary’s in August and (all Shetland); Fair Isle, 26th August. Aquatic up to four more in September, also St Agnes Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola A total of six during 17th–26th August, Tresco 29th August to 7th Sep- 17th–30th August, in Cornwall (two), Devon (two), tember and St Martin’s 10th September. Elsewhere, Dorset and Kent; with others in September in a long-stayer in Gloucestershire to 20th August, Devon, and Scilly (at least two). Blyth’s Reed and others in Cleveland, Co. Cork, Cornwall, Co. Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum Bixter (Shetland), Durham and Suffolk (two). House Crow Corvus 19th September; Tiree, 19th–26th September; Fair splendens Long-stayer, Cobh (Co. Cork), present Isle, 19th September, another 1st October; Glan- throughout. fahan (Co. Kerry), 20th–22nd September; Portland Bill, 27th September; Cape Clear (Co. Cork) Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla Up to 3rd–5th October. three on Fair Isle and up to four on Scilly during the period, with others in Kent, Orkney, Shetland Rose-coloured Starling Pastor roseus About nine in and Co. Wexford. Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis September, in Argyll, Cornwall, Dumfries & Gal- daurica Crayford Marshes (Greater London), 8th loway, Fair Isle, Kent, Pembrokeshire, Scilly (two) September; Mizen Head, 20th September; Cley, and Suffolk; with others in October from Corn- 21st September. wall, Devon (two) and Hampshire. Swainson’s Thrush Catharus ustulatus Nanjizal, 21st Sep- Greenish Warbler Phylloscopus trochiloides Singles on tember; Boddam (Shetland), 21st–23rd September. Fair Isle, 12th–14th August and 2nd September; six Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus Fetlar, in Shetland, between 14th August and 2nd Sep- 22nd–24th September. Siberian Blue Robin Luscinia tember; five in Norfolk, during 18th–25th August, cyane Foula, found dead, 1st October. and others in Co. Cork, Co. Durham, North-east Scotland, Northumberland and Yorkshire. Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola Fair Isle, Arctic Warbler Phyllo- scopus borealis Fair Isle, 23rd–24th August; Sum- burgh, 24th August, Unst, 25th August, Grutness, 25th–26th August, Fetlar, 4th September, Hoswick, 7th–9th Septem ber, Sand- wick, 17th–18th Septem - ber, Foula, 18th September (all Shetland); also Burnham Overy (Norfolk), 24th Sep- tember. Western Bonelli’s Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli Gulberwick (Shet- land), 9th–11th August; St Mary’s, 18th– 21st August; Polgigga, 20th–23rd August; Dunge-

ness, 24th August; Cromer Hugh Harrop (Norfolk), 26th–28th 385. Adult Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus, Hillwell, Shetland, August; Bardsey (Caernar- October 2011.

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Tacumshin, 2nd Sep- tember, one to 10th September; Cley, 7th–10th September; Carrahane, 8th Sep- tember; Mizen Head, 9th September; Farmoor Resr (Oxford- shire), 10th September; North Ronaldsay, 12th–20th September, with two 22nd–24th, one to 26th September; St Mary’s, 13th–14th September; Ballylong- ford (Co. Kerry), 15th–16th September; then in Shetland, at Cunningsburgh, 1st October, Quendale, 1st–

Will Soar 2nd Oct ober, Lerwick, 386. Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia, St Mary’s, Scilly, 2nd October, Fleck, September 2011. 3rd–8th October. 13th–16th August, another 6th–8th September, probably another 15th, with two 16th, one to 3rd Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni In Shetland: October; Tresco, 21st–22nd August and 7th Sep- Brake, 1st–2nd October, Hoswick, 1st October, tember; Seaforth (Merseyside), 28th August and Sumburgh, 2nd October, Lerwick, 2nd October, 2nd September; Boyton Marshes, 28th August; St Channerwick, 3rd–5th October, Unst, 4th–6th Agnes, 31st August and 4th September; two, October, Whalsay 9th October, also Fair Isle, 1st October; elsewhere, Inner Farne (Northum- berland), 1st October. Pechora Pipit Anthus gustavi Foula, 18th–20th September; North Ronaldsay, 1st October. Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus Porthgwarra, 16th September, another 4th October; Spurn, 9th October. Buff-bellied Pipit Anthus rubescens St Kilda, 18th September; Foula, 22nd–29th Sep- tember; North Ronaldsay, two, 22nd–24th, one to 26th September; Quendale, 8th–9th October; Newhaven (Sussex), 9th October.

European Serin Serinus serinus Records from Dorset, Gower and Kent. Two-barred Cross- bill Loxia leucoptera Kilnsea, two 12th August; Sumburgh Head, 14th August; Tronda (Shetland), 14th August; Holystone (North - umberland), 30th September. Yellow- breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola Foula, 25th–27th September. Black-headed Bunting Emberiza melanocephala Unst, 28th Sep- tember to 4th October.

Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula St Mary’s, 20th–21st September. Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia St Mary’s, 17th–21st

Martin Goodey September. Northern Waterthrush Seiurus 387. Northern Waterthrush Seiurus noveboracensis, noveboracensis St Mary’s, 16th September to St Mary’s, Scilly, September 2011. 10th October.

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