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SURREY NEWS......
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May 11th Keith Millar finds a Spoonbill on the lake at Beddington which stays for an hour before flying north east. This is the third record at Beddington in four years.
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May 3rd Grant Prater pics up a Raven being mobbed by gulls over Beddington. The bird is “escorted” from the farm and flies off east.
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2008
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December 22nd Graham James discovers a Great White Egret circling over Holmethorpe which drifts off south west
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November 28th The Serin is again reported at Barnes WWT, this time by Nick Senior but flies off.
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November27th A female type Serin is reported by Rupert Kaye at Barnes WWT but flies off.
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November 25th Frank Prater picks up 2 Raven flying onto pylons at Beddington. They stay for a short and are just twitchable until, mobbed by crows, they disappear over Mitcham Common.
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October 3rd Hot on the heels of the September record, Jeremy Gates has not one but five great Skua over his workplace at Hollow Farm, WorplesdonSeptember. There have still been no twitchable recorsd.
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Speptember 21st Two weeks after the Wryneck drops in, Grant and Frank Prater find a another “first” for Beddington in the Shape of a Great White Egret which spends an hour on the lake. Earlier on, a possible Great White Egret is reported going north over Holmethorpe.
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September 14th Neil Anderson finds a Guillemot on the Thames at Barnes whilst doing a WEBS count and the bird is tracked upriver to Richmond giving good views.
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September 7th A stunning “first” for Beddington turns up in the shape of a Wryneck, trapped and
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September 5th Surrey’s fourth ever Great Skua is noted by Nick Senior flying south over Barnes WWT. Unfortunately no other observers are present to appreciate this very rare sight. This completes Nick’s set of Skuas at Barnes having previously had Pom last November, Arctic in previous years whilst still remaining the only person to have recorded Long-tailed Skua in Surrey.
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June 5th A Black Stork is belatedly reported flying into Surrey from East Grinstead over Dorman’s Park on this date.
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May 19th Another report of Black Kite, this time over Wisley Common. If this is the same bird as seen earlier, it may eventually be pinned down.
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May 18th A female Red-footed Falcon is reported flying east (out of Surrey), over the Clacket Lane services on the M25.
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May 10th A visitor discovers a superb Stone Curlew in the afternoon at Barnes WWT and this much awaited Surrey mega stays to be seen and admired by many.
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April 28th A Spoonbill is seen from a train flying low north over Berrylands SF
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April 25th A Black Kite flies south east over Puttenham and belated news of a Common Crane north over Unstead on the 24th
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April 20th A Black Kite flies north over Pyrford
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April 17th Late news is received of a Hoopoe at Oxted
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March 25th Late news from March 16th when a drake Green-winged Teal was present for one day only at Enton Lake which is private.
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March 19th Late news is received of a Great White Egret on private land near Newchapel on February 15th.
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January 20th A British record 7 Caspian Gulls are noted by Nick Senior at Barnes WWT. Unfortunately no other observer is present to get to grips with the identification features of this attractive gull, recently given full species status by the BOU.
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January 14th A Ring-billed Gull is reported on the Thames at Wandle Creek. No age is given.
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2007
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December 15th News is received in the evening of a report of Dipper flying south along Beverley Brook, Richmond Park. No sign of it on the 16th but who knows ?
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December 14th Having dipped two Surrey Spoonbills in two years, I was well pleased to find a first winter bird on the lake at Beddington. It stayed for almost an hour and three of the regulars managed to twitch it.
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November 15th Hot on the heels of the Pom, Dave Harris finds a superb and much sought after Little Auk. Unfortunately it flies off before it can be twitched but Dave gets a couple of good “grip pics” for the dippers to grieve over.
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November 12th 2dark phase juvenile Pom Skuas are seen flying south east over Barnes WWT by Nick Senior. Unfortunaely no one else is present to witness this magnificent spectacle.
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November 10th Dave Harris finds a magnificent adult Pom Skua at Walton just after the foot and mouth restrictions were lifted. His first big bird, and Surrey tick, at Walton since the Roseate Tern in 2005. Many enjoy this bird, complete with “spoons”.
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October 9th Franko Marievic finds an “acro” at Barnes WWT which could possibly be a Blyth’s Reed Warbler. Unfortunately the bird is on the grazing marsh at long range. The following day it is seen by a single observer, Nick Senior, who has it at much closer range, and hears it calling, on the other side of the reserve.
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September 5th Yet another report of a Spoonbill. This time flying from Surrey, north over the Thames at Laleham.
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