On the evening of 5th of June local birder Alan curry turned up on his local patch on the Blyth estuary in Northumberland and scored one of the birds of the spring when he found a mega East Asian calidrid.This was only the eighth record for Britain and the 2nd for Northumberland,this was a mega find.I had just returned from a week on Shetland and was partying away in Glasgow on a night out when the news broke so it was just fingers crossed it stayed the next day and I would call in to see it on the way home.
News came out that the Red necked stint was still there on rising so I headed south and got to the site just after midday.Soon as I got out the car the bird was showing along with a Little stint and some Ringed Plovers.What a cracking bird!I watched the bird for a good hour and gradually it came closer giving amazing views.What a great ending to a fantastic weeks holiday
There have been 7 previous accepted records of this species in Britain:
2010- Ferrybridge, adult, 27th August, photo-Dorset
2001-Somersham Gravel-pits, Huntingdonshire, adult, 21st to 22nd September, photo-Cambridgeshire
2000-Pool of Virkie, Mainland, adult, 18th to 21st July, photo-Shetland
1995-Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, adult, 12th to 13th August, photo-Northumberland
1994-South Harbour, juvenile, recently dead, 31st August, photo; now at National Museums of Scotland (NMSZ 1994.127)-Fair Isle-Shetland
1992-Cley Marshes, adult, 29th July to 3rd August-Norfolk
1986-Blacktoft Sands RSPB, adult, 22nd to 29th July, photo-East Yorkshire
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