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SURREY NEWS......
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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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August 19th Shaun “Dunnock Man” Peters adds to his list of excellent finds at Frensham with a juvenile Purple Heron on the Little Pond. The bird stays for many to enjoy.
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July 14th A Spoonbill flies south west over Barnes WWT (Rupert Kaye) and is later seen on the deck for twenty minutes at Tice,s Meadow (Kevin Duncan)
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May 25th14 Glossy Ibis (probably from the flock originally in Gloucestershire), fly east over Addlestone Moor roundabout at 7:20am.
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April 18th Britain and Europe’s first Glaucous-Winged Gull (trapped and ringed at a Gloucester landfill site and then seen for four days on the Tywi estuary, Wales), spends 45 minutes at Beddington when seen by myself and Garry Messenbird.
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March 3rd A Stone Curlew drops in late afternoon at Barnes WWT (a first for the site). Staff there are informed by the finder, Fraser Simpson, who was not on the local grapevine, but unfortunately the main liaison was not present to appreciate the importance of this bird and inform the regulars who can get late access when required. The bird was not present next morning.
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2006
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December A Yellow-Browed Warbler is found on the Hampshire/Surrey border at Hawley Water Meadows. Fortunately it stays into March 2007 and spends much of it’s time on the Surrey side.
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October 22nd Astounding news received of a Crag Martin with some House Martins at Badshot. Sadly, the bird does not linger. There has been only one twitchable Crag Martin in Britain. Unsurprisingly, if accepted this will be the first record for Surrey.
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May 28th An adult Long-Tailed Skua flies south over Unstead Sewage Works and late news is received of a male Montagu’s Harrier over there on the 18th ! Both birds seen by Brian Milton.
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May 10th A Black Kite flies over Barnes WWT seen by Nick Senior and Dan Monk. If accepted this would be the fourth for Surrey, the first being seen near Haslemere in May 1980, the second over Capel in May 1994 and the third over Barnes WWT in August 2003 (also seen by Nick Senior). Barnes seems to be the place to go for the best chance of seeing Black Kite in Surrey (they also had Honey Buzzard on the same day).
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May 7th Garry “The Monk” Messenbird has a Spoonbill flying over Beddington with two other lucky observers. A much sought after Surrey bird, the last at Beddington was 1988. There have been no recent twitchable birds. The same or another bird is seen on the deck for ten minutes at Unstead SF on May 9th by Brian Milton
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March 27th Astounding news received that a first winter American Robin has been in Peckham for around two and a half months. A local sent a picture of it to the RSPB widlife enquiries who identified it. It took a while for Surrey birders to work out that this is within the boundary of the old Surrey vice county and is therefore a Surrey mega. Amazingly, there have been two before in Surrey, one in the Surrey part of Windsor Great Park, February to March 1966 and one found dead in Haslemere in October1984. Incredibly, the bird shows for only ten minutes on the following morning before disappearing.
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