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Records
accepted by British Birds Rarities Committee.
Updated on 10
and 22 October 2006; new information in bold.
2001
Ross’s Goose:
Farlington Marshes, Oct 29th (Jason Crook); accepted as category D.
2004
Chinese Pond
Heron: East Dean, Nov 13th (R & J Churchill): identification accepted; record
passed to BOURC.
2005
Red-footed
Falcon: first-summer male, Martin Down, June 18th (Andrew Self, Ian Ellis & Roy
Beddard, and, independently, Alan and John Greensmith).
Collared
Pratincole: 1, The Deeps, Farlington Marshes, May 1st (Bob Chapman, Jason Crook,
Pete Gammage)
Black-winged
Stilt: 1, Pennington Marsh, June 23rd (Tony Blakeley).
Baird’s
Sandpiper: juvenile, Fishtail Lagoon, Pennington, Sep 29th-Oct 16th (Marc Moody,
Martin Cooper, Graham Barrett et al).
White-rumped
Sandpiper: adult, Farlington Marshes, July 27th (Jason Crook, Pete Gammage, Tim
Lawman).
Lesser
Yellowlegs: Titchfield Haven, Oct 23rd-28th (seen by many observers -
description provided by Keith Maycock; initial finder not known).
Wilson’s
Phalarope: 1, Farlington Marshes, Aug 21st-25th (Hugh Venables et al).
Laughing Gull:
first-winter, Haslar Creek, Gosport, Nov 5th-13th (Peter Raby, John Norton et
al); same, Normandy, Nov 20th (Simon Woolley et al).
Whiskered Tern:
adult, Titchfield Haven, May 20th (Peter Davidson, Richard Carpenter et al);
a different adult, Tundry Pond and Fleet Pond, May 20th/21st (Brigid Campbell
et al).
Alpine Swift:
1, Brownwich, Oct 30th (Graham Osborne).
Red-rumped
Swallow: 1, Farlington Marshes, May 10th (Jason Crook); 1, Keyhaven, Oct 10th
(Tim Parmenter).
Desert Wheatear:
first-winter male, Sandy Point/Beachlands, Hayling Island, Nov 17th (Andy
Johnson, Simon Woolley et al).
Radde’s Warbler:
1, Sherborne St John, Basingstoke, Dec 7th (Andrew Pink, Nick Montegriffo et
al).
Records not
accepted by BBRC
Updated on 22
October 2006; new information in bold.
2003
Black Kite:
Cheesefoot Head area, Jan 19th-Mar 5th.
2004
Little Swift:
Southampton University, Feb 6th.
White-winged
Black Tern: juvenile/first-winter, Titchfield Haven, Sep 26th.
2005
Great White
Egret: Hayling Oysterbeds, May 10th.
Black Kite:
Longwood Warren, June 17th.
Least
Sandpiper: Keyhaven Marsh, Sep 9th.
Caspian Tern:
Hook-with-Warsash, June 27th.
Red-throated
Pipit: Sandy Point, Oct 13th.
Sardinian
Warbler: male, Farlington Marshes, June 17th.
Records still
pending with BBRC
Pallid Swift:
2, Bedhampton, Oct 12th 2004.
Cattle Egret:
Stoney Cross, July 21st 2005.
Records
accepted by HOS Records Panel
Updated
following meeting on 13 July 2006. Newly accepted records in bold.
2004
Common Crane:
1 N, Needs Ore Point, 1610 hrs, Apr 13th (Barry Goater); 1, assumed same, came
into roost from the S, Bransbury Common, 2020 hrs, Apr 13th (Kelvin Pearce,
David Thelwell); immature NE over Blackwater, Needs
Ore, 1410-1415 hrs, May 11th (Alan Hold, Alan Moody, Pete Oram, Mike Oram, Pete
Walsh).
Serin: 1, West
End, Feb 12th (Graham Barrett)
2005
(Tundra) Bean
Goose: 2 of the race rossicus, Ibsley, Jan 29th (Glyn Horacek-Davis)
and 30th (Marcus & Zoe Ward); 15, Needs
Ore, Jan 16th-Mar
1st with numbers reducing to 2, Apr 2nd (m.o.).
Pink-footed
Goose: 1, Needs Ore, Jan 4th-Apr 24th (m.o.); 1 E, Hurst Beach, May 12th
(Russell Wynn); 1, Pennington Marsh, May 15th (Russell Wynn); 1 E,
Milford-on-Sea (Alan Locke). All records assumed to relate to the same feral
individual.
Black Brant:
three in Chichester/Langstone Harbours and two in the Pennington/Keyhaven area
in the late year (full details to be published in bird report).
Green-winged
Teal: male, Bramshill Plantation North Pools, 1030 hrs, Feb 20th (John Clark)
Sooty Shearwater:
1 east off Stokes Bay, 0826 hrs, Oct 21st (Trevor Carpenter)
Balearic
Shearwater: at least two individuals off Hurst on dates between July 17th and
23rd (Marc Moody et al).
Storm Petrel:
1 east off Hill Head, 1400 hrs, Nov 2nd (Ron King, Barry Duffin); 1 west
off Hill Head, 0840 hrs, Nov 3rd (Bob Marchant); 2 east
over Stokes Bay, 1350-1525 hrs, Nov 3rd (Gary Calderwood).
Leach’s
Petrel:
one off Hordle and
Milford, Oct 30th
(Eddie Wiseman, Steve Boswell); around 17 off Stokes Bay, Hill Head, Hurst
Castle and Milford-on-Sea, Nov 3rd-6th (full details to be published in bird
report).
White Stork:
1 over Titchfield Haven, Apr 27th (Val Lowings & Brian Cozens); 1 NW over
Portsdown Hill and later at upper Titchfield Haven, June 25th (Keith Maycock,
Mark Rolfe); 1 over the Rose Bowl stadium, Hedge End, 1130 hrs, Aug 20th
2005 (Alick Jones); 1 over Lower Exbury, Nov 26th (Mike
Rafter).
Corn Crake: 1,
the Kench, Langstone Harbour, Sep 17th (Tim Lawman).
Temminck’s
Stint:
1, Langstone
Harbour, May 16th (Jason Crook); 1 in flight over Farlington Marshes, May 18th
(Jason Crook);
1, Ibsley Water,
May 28th 2005 (Lawrence Chappell)
Pectoral
Sandpiper: 1, Park Shore, Needs Ore, Aug 2nd (Geoff and Barry Goater et al);
juvenile, Titchfield Haven, Sep 2nd-7th (Kevin Crisp et al, photo);
1, in off the sea at Hurst, 0934 hrs, and later at the Lymington River, Sep 12th
2005 (Marc Moody)
Red-necked
Phalarope: juvenile, Needs Ore, Oct 4th (Mike Rafter); juvenile, Cherque,
Gosport, Oct 7th/8th (Pete Raby, John Norton, Trevor Carpenter et al,
photo); 1 off Milford-on-Sea, Nov 11th (Marc Moody).
Grey
Phalarope:
1, Ibsley Water, 1530 hrs, Jan 23rd 2005 (Keith Coward);
juvenile, Pennington Marsh, Aug 25th/26th (Russell Wynn, photo);
first-winters, Titchfield Haven, Oct 26th and Nov 2nd (Barry Duffin et al);
off Weston Shore, Nov 3rd/4th (Andy Collins et al); Horsey Island,
Portsmouth Harbour, Nov 5th (Peter Strangeman); near Clarence Pier, Southsea,
Nov 6th (per John Clark); west past Milford-on-Sea, Nov 6th (Eddie Wiseman);
Burley Golf Course, Nov 12th-15th (Stuart Sporne et al).
Long-tailed
Skua: one east past Milford-on-Sea, Oct 25th (Marc Moody).
Sabine’s Gull:
juvenile east past Milford-on-Sea, Nov 11th (Marc Moody); juvenile,
Hayling Bay, Nov 11th (Andy Johnson, photo) and 12th;
found dead Sandy Point, Nov 18th (George Spraggs, photo).
Ring-billed
Gull: adult, Walpole Park, Gosport, until Mar 27th and from Oct 5th (Pete Raby
et al, photo); second-winter, Gilkicker Lake, Aug 27th (Ian Calderwood,
photo).
Caspian Gull:
first-winter, Black Point, Mar 30th (Andy Johnson);
first-winter, Fleet Pond, Sep 25th (Graham Stephenson, John Eyre).
Iceland Gull:
second-winter, Gosport area, until Apr 14th (m.o., photo); third-winter,
presumed same, Hill Head, Dec 23rd (Richard Carpenter).
Bee-eater: 2,
Titchfield Haven, June 3rd (Brian Goddard, Roly Pitt); 1, Sandy Point, Aug 3rd
(Andy Johnson).
Richard’s
Pipit:
1, Pennington Marsh, Sep 17th (Russell Wynn); 1, Pennington Marsh, 1015
hrs, Nov 20th, left E (Simon Woolley).
Tawny Pipit:
1, Sandy Point, May 10th (Andy Johnson).
Bluethroat: 1
in a garden at Liss Forest in late March (per Mike Wearing, photo).
Aquatic
Warbler: first-winter and adult trapped, Farlington Marshes, Aug 7th (Duncan
Bell and Phil Lymbery, photos); first-winter there, Aug 11th (Duncan Bell,
photo).
Melodious
Warbler: 1, IBM Lake, Cosham, 0850-0910 hrs, Sep 17th 2005 (Tim Doran).
Barred Warbler:
first-winter, Solent Court, Chilling, Sep 18th (Pete Potts).
Pallas’s Warbler:
1, in observers’ garden, Lymington, 1355 hrs, Jan 15th 2005 (Graham Giddens and
Dana Eddis).
Yellow-browed
Warbler: single birds at Titchfield Haven, Oct 4th (Barry Duffin, Dan Powell);
Sandy Point from Oct 6th-10th (Andy Johnson et al); and IBM Lake on Oct
16th (Tim Doran).
Serin: single
birds, Sandy Point, Apr 25th, 26th and July 7th (Andy Johnson).
Common (Mealy)
Redpoll:
1, Moorgreen Farm, West End, Nov 27th (Glyn Horacek-Davis);
Moorcourt Farm, Broadlands, Nov 30th (Richard Preston); 4, Roke
Manor, Romsey, Dec 29th (Simon Woolley, Richard Cheater).
2006
Storm Petrel: one
off Hill Head, May 20th (Alan and John Greensmith).
Purple Heron:
adult west over Normandy Marsh, May 9th (Marcus Ward).
White Stork:
single birds over Locks Heath, Mar 21st (Bob Marchant), Frater, Gosport, Mar
29th (Ian Calderwood) and central Southampton, May 9th (Alan Dawson).
Black Kite: 1
over Bridgmary, Gosport, May 4th (Pete Raby).
Iceland Gull:
third-winter, Winchester SF, Jan 3rd (Simon Woolley). The panel agreed with the
observer that this bird was almost certainly of the race glaucoides, but
felt that the possibility of it being kumlieni had not been totally
eliminated.
Woodchat Shrike:
1, Hambledon, May 7th-9th (Peter Ryder et al, photo).
Arctic and
Common Redpolls: all records for 2006 are still under discussion; the panel has
sought external expert advice on the claimed Arctic Redpolls.
Records not
accepted by HOS Records Panel.
2005
White Stork:
Frame Wood, May 9th – views very distant, observer not 100% certain.
Nightjar: New
Forest, Apr 18th – heard briefly, not seen; panel not happy to accept record as
earliest for county by eight days as it did not tie in with any early arrivals
elsewhere.
Ring-billed
Gull: Keyhaven, Nov 8th – notes inadequate to rule out other species.
Marsh Warbler:
singing in scrub, Anton Lakes, July 30th – panel not convinced that Reed Warbler
has been eliminated.
Richards
Pipit: Needs Ore, Sep 17th – call only, bird not seen, panel not 100% convinced.
Yellow-browed
Warbler: New Milton, Oct 16th - call only, bird not seen, panel not 100%
convinced.
2006
Black Kite:
Warnford, June 17th – observer not 100% certain.
Serin: 1 west
over Alverstoke, Gosport, May 11th – call only; panel not 100% convinced.
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