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Hampshire Birds – update on
records of rare/scarce birds submitted to HOS Records Panel and British Birds
Rarities Committee.
This list has been compiled
following the HOSRP meeting in May 2009 and a further circulation of late
records. This list includes records of bird seen in 2008 plus any late records
from earlier years. All records refer to single birds unless stated otherwise.
Notes are still required for several 2008 and earlier records, as well as 2009,
and the HOSRP urges observers to submit details to the County Recorder,
preferably in electronic format. Recording forms can be obtained from the
recorder (contact details at end of this list) or from the HOS website
http://www.hos.org.uk/recordingforms/UnusualRecordForm.doc
Records accepted by HOS
Records Panel
2008
Whooper Swan: 5 SW,
Stubbington, Jan 26th (Paul Heath); adult + 4 first-winters, Testwood Lakes, Mar
26th, (Graham Barrett); two adults + 2 first-winters, Winchester SF, Oct 22nd
(John Cloyne); 3 adults, Rockford Lake, Nov 23rd (Bob Chapman); adult,
Farlington Marshes, Nov 25th-29th (Jason Crook et al.).
Bean Goose: Needs Ore, Nov
27th (Mike Rafter); Ibsley Water, Dec 12th (Bob Chapman et al.);
Blashford Water Meadows, Dec 17th (John Levell); Hampshire Hatches Lane, Dec
31st (Nigel & Sandy Jones).
Pink-footed Goose: 2, Avon
Causeway/Bisterne/Hampshire Hatches Lane, Dec 31st 2007-Mar 2nd (Nigel Jones,
John Clark); 4, Avon Causeway, Nov 23rd-27th (Lawrence Chappell, Kevin Sayer);
Ibsley Water, Dec 8th (Robert Chapman).
Greenland White-fronted Goose:
5 N, Weston Shore, Feb 17th (Andy Collins, Ian Watts).
Black Brant: several at both
ends of the year – full details will be published in the bird report.
Green-winged Teal: male,
Hook-with-Warsash, Apr 22nd-28th (Steve Copsey); male, Farlington Marshes, Oct
13th-Nov 9th (Jason Crook et al.).
Ring-necked Duck: male,
Passfield Pond and Frith End SP, Dec 10th into 2009 (Mike Wearing et al.).
Sooty Shearwater: east,
Hayling Bay, Aug 13th (Tim Lawman); west, Sandy Point, Sep 10th (Andy Johnson).
Balearic Shearwater: 10
between June 27th and Oct 4th – full details will be published in the bird
report.
Storm Petrel: 16 records
between May 28th and July 10th; 1 long dead on Nov 21st – full details will be
published in the bird report.
Leach’s Petrel: 4, Milford on
Sea, Oct 5th (Simon Ingram et al.).
Night Heron: adult NE over
North End, Portsmouth, Apr 22nd (Kevin Crisp); adult E over Sparks Marina,
Chichester Harbour, Sep 27th (Andy Johnson).
Great White Egret: Blashford
Lakes area, from 2007 until Jan 27th and from Aug 16th into 2009; Eastleigh, Feb
13th (Mark Edgeller); Bransgore, Mar 12th (John Levesley).
White Stork: 9 records between
May 10th and Aug 14th – full details will be published in the bird report.
Black Kite: 1 N over Bourley
Heath, Apr 1st (John Eyre).
White-tailed Eagle: Cholderton
area and Porton Down, Nov 18th 2007-Apr 9th (Henry Edmunds et al.).
Red-footed Falcon:
first-summer female, Ridley Plain, May 10th (Wayne Percy); adult male, Beaulieu
Road, May 13th (Barry Friend, Barry Goater); first-summer male, Holm Hill, May
13th-15th (Andy Page, Wayne Percy); first-summer male N, Ibsley Water, May 18th
(Lawrence Chappell); first-summer male, Beaulieu Road, May 23rd-June 1st (m.o.);
female, Moorgreen Farm, Sep 20th (Glyn Horacek-Davis).
Crane: Woolmer Pond, Apr
8th/9th (Richard Ford et al); Kingsley, Apr 10th (Graham Huxley); Woolmer
Pond, Apr 24th (Denise Murray et al.); 4, Lyndhurst, Dec 27th (Peter
Wickham).
Kentish Plover: juvenile,
Keyhaven, Aug 10th (N J Phillips et al.).
Temminck’s Stint: 4 between
May 6th and 16th – full details will be published in the bird report.
Pectoral Sandpiper: juvenile,
The Deeps, Farlington Marshes, Sep 20th/21st (Jason Crook et al.);
juvenile, Keyhaven, Oct 11th (Paul Winter et al.).
Buff-breasted Sandpiper: 1 E
then W over Barton on Sea, Sep 26th (Steve Keen).
Red-necked Phalarope: Hurst
Beach, Jan 21st (Nigel Jones, Colin Allen); juvenile, Farlington Marshes, Sep
16th (Richard Ford et al.).
Long-tailed Skua: up to 7 on
Oct 4th/5th – full details will be published in the bird report.
Sabine’s Gull: 2 adults W,
Pennington, Sep 7th (Marc Moody, Tim Parminter); juvenile, Itchen estuary, Sep
7th-12th (Andy Collins et al.); 2 juveniles off Milford on Sea, Oct 7th
(Marc Moody).
Ring-billed Gull: adult,
Walpole Park, Gosport up to Mar 27th and from Oct 10th into 2009.
Caspian Gull: adult, Ibsley
Water, Nov 8th, Dec 6th and 7th and Ibsley North Lake, Dec 31st (Nigel Jones
et al.).
White-winged Black Tern:
juvenile, Langstone Harbour, Sep 14th (Tim Lawman).
Bee-eater: 5, Cadman’s Pool,
May 11th and at least 2 there on 13th (P Davies); Beaulieu Road, May 23rd (Simon
Hartill et al.); West Hayling Shore, July 14th (Alistair Martin).
Richard’s Pipit: Keyhaven, Oct
24th (Marc Moody).
Tawny Pipit: Hurst, June 1st
(Marc Moody et al).
Aquatic Warbler: adult,
trapped, Farlington Marshes, Aug 30th (Duncan Bell et al.).
Melodious Warbler: Barton on
Sea, Oct 8th (Bob Chapman et al.).
Pallas’s Warbler: male in
song, Totton, Mar 1st-Apr 3rd (Pete Combridge et al.); male in song,
Sandy Point, May 8th (Andy Johnson et al.); trapped, Bramley, Dec 28th
(Robert Cheke).
Yellow-browed Warbler: 6
between Sep 30th and Dec 21st – full details will be published in the bird
report.
Golden Oriole: male in song
near Burley, May 15th/16th (Andy Page et al.).
Red-backed Shrike: juvenile,
Pennington, Sep 27th-Oct 11th (Simon Ingram et al.).
Serin: Hayling Bay, May 5th
(Tim Lawman); Barton on Sea, Oct 25th (Steve Keen); Sandy Point, Nov 9th (Andy
Johnson).
Twite: Sturt Pond, Keyhaven,
Dec 13th 2007-Feb 15th (m.o.); Pennington Marsh, Nov 22nd and 24th (Steve
Piggott).
Lapland Bunting: 1-3, Keyhaven,
up to Mar 15th (m.o.); 1 NW, Casbrook Common, Oct 9th (David Thelwell).
Little Bunting: Old Basing,
Oct 24th, 25th and Nov 1st (James Andrews).
Category D
Common Yellowthroat:
HMS Aurora,
Southampton Docks, Sep 23rd.
1989 addition
Black Guillemot: adult in
summer plumage off Hurst Beach, May 11th (Marc Moody).
1994 addition
Marsh Warbler: singing,
locality withheld, June 16th-20th.
Records accepted by BBRC
Red-breasted Goose: adult,
Chichester Harbour, Nov 10th 2007-Mar 6th 2008 (Martin Gillingham, C. L. Staires,
Andy Johnson et al.); presumed same, Keyhaven/Normandy area, Oct 31st
into 2009 (Eddie Wiseman et al.).
Cattle Egret: Harbridge,
Dec 27th-March 27th (Nigel Jones et al); Dilton Farm, Brockenhurst, Jan
25th/26th (Rod Ship, Ron Cooke); 2, Bergerie Farm, Beaulieu, Jan 30th-Mar 1st
(Val Lowings, Brian Cozens, Richard Coomber) and presumably the same at nearby
Clobb Farm Pond, Mar 29th-Apr 11th with one until May 2nd; Titchfield Haven, May
29th (Mrs M Pink, Richard Carpenter); Priory Farm, Selborne, Dec 28th/29th (Mike
Lawn et al.); Park Farm, Needs Ore, Dec 31st into 2009 (Nigel and Sandy
Jones).
Glossy Ibis: Fishtail
Lagoon, Pennington, May 17th-19th (Tim Parminter et al.).
Black-winged Stilt: Ibsley
Water, May 10th (Tim Doran et al.); 2, Beaulieu Mill, June 30th (Janet
Dedman et al.).
Lesser Yellowlegs: adult,
Park Shore, Needs Ore, Sep 21st (Dave Unsworth).
Whiskered Tern: adult E,
Hurst and Normandy, May 6th (Marc Moody, Pete Durnell, Marcus Ward).
White-throated Sparrow:
first-winter male, Nov 5th into 2009 (John Rowe et al.).
Records still under
consideration by the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC).
2004
Pallid Swift
Apus pallidus:
2,
Bedhampton, Oct 12th.
Records for which descriptions
are required for consideration by HOSRP or BBRC.
2008
Black Brant:
Keyhaven, Jan 20th; Needs Ore, Oct 19th.
American Wigeon
Anas americana:
female off Inchmery Quay, Jan 14th.
Green-winged Teal:
male, Blackwater, Needs Ore, Nov 14th.
Red-necked Grebe:
Keyhaven, Jan 20th;
off Hayling Oysterbeds LNR, Jan 23rd.
Cattle Egret:
Bransbury Common, Nov 11th; Romsey, Dec 3rd.
Great White Egret:
Pennington Marsh, July 17th.
White Stork:
1 N over junction 5, M27, June 15th; 1 SW over Bitterne, July 23rd.
Honey-buzzard:
2 N and 1 S, Gosport, May 2nd; 1 N, Fareham, May 25th; 2 SW, Farnborough, Sep
20th; 1, Farnborough, 21st; 1 E, Farnborough, 27th; Winchester GC, Oct 13th.
Black Kite:
Gosport, May 2nd; Overton,
May 8th; Beaulieu Road, May 24th; Old Basing, May 24th; Overton, June 26th; Old
Basing, June 27th; 1 N, Hill Head, Sep 25th.
Osprey:
NE, Winchester Services, Mar 7th.
Red-footed Falcon:
adult male, Beaulieu Road, May 23rd (with long-staying first-summer male).
Spotted Crake:
Farlington Marshes, Oct
18th.
Common Crane:
Old Basing, May 25th.
Temminck’s Stint:
near Blackwater, Needs Ore, June 10th.
Pectoral Sandpiper:
Needs Ore shore, July 11th.
Ring-billed Gull:
adult + first-winter off Inchmery Quay, Feb 10th.
Caspian Gull:
third or fourth-winter, Fleet Pond, July 10th-20th; adult, Hythe, Aug 31st.
Roseate Tern:
first-summer, Titchfield Haven, July 20th; 2 juveniles, Beaulieu estuary, Sep
7th.
Hoopoe:
near Alresford, Feb 8th.
Yellow-browed Warbler:
Cove, Farnborough, Oct 17th.
Records considered not
proven by HOSRP or BBRC.
In the vast majority of cases,
the records below were categorised as not proven because the panel/committee was
not convinced that the identification was fully established; only in a very few
cases were records not accepted as, in the panel’s/committee’s view, a mistake
had been made.
2008 -
BBRC
Forster’s Tern
Sterna forsteri:
Hill Head, Sep 5th.
Trumpeter Finch
Bucanetes
githagineus:
Needs Ore, May 10th.
2005 –
BBRC
Laughing Gull
Larus atricilla:
juvenile,
Walpole Park, Gosport, Nov 10th (2nd bird).
2003 -
BBRC
Black Kite:
Cheesefoot Head, Jan 19th-Mar 5th.
2008 -
HOSRP
Red-necked Grebe:
Oxey Creek,
Pennington, Mar 15th.
Night Heron:
Lodge Lane, Beaulieu, Jan 14th.
Storm Petrel:
Lymington Estuary, May 22nd.
Spoonbill:
2, Sowley Pond, Aug 1st.
White-tailed Eagle:
Bedhampton, May 5th.
Honey-buzzard:
Old Basing, Oct 21st.
Black Kite:
Keyhaven, Apr 16th; Chilworth, May 6th; Southampton, May 7th; Alton, May 9th.
Great Skua:
over London Road, Southampton, July 11th.
Ring-billed Gull:
second-winter, Emsworth, Jan 5th.
Caspian Gull:
adult, Blackbushe
Airfield, Aug 11th.
Hoopoe:
Ramsdell, Oct 24th.
Richard’s Pipit:
1 W over Barton on Sea, Oct 28th.
Golden Oriole:
male, Fawley Power Station, Aug 1st.
Redstart:
male and female, Martin Down, Oct 27th.
Marsh Warbler:
Titchfield Haven, May 10th; Seafield Park, Hill Head, Sep 26th.
Melodious Warbler:
Great Covert Wood, Oct 9th/10th.
Pallas’s Warbler:
Ringwood, mid March.
2007 -
HOSRP
Roseate Tern:
one over Battle Green, Hambledon, May 12th.
2006/07 –
HOSRP
American Wigeon
Anas americana: Titchfield Haven, Nov 21st-23rd 2006 and Feb 18th
2007.
John Clark (johnclark50@sky.com)
On behalf of HOSRP: Keith
Betton, Bob Chapman, Simon Ingram, Tim Lawman, Marc Moody and David Thelwell.
8 September 2009
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