COUNTY RARITY COMMITTEE 'WORK-IN-PROGRESS' REPORT 2009

 

Key to abbreviations used in the reports

Status column

IC- the submission is currently in circulation around the committee

OK- the committee has found the submission proven beyond all reasonable doubt

NP- the committee has found the submission not proven beyond all reasonable doubt

P- the committee has pended the assessment for a specific pertinent reason

W- the submission has been withdrawn by the observer

BBRC- the submission constitutes a national rarity and has been forwarded to the British Rarities Committee

 

Please note that the date only refers to the initial date for any sighting

Updated 02.02.11

Avocet (2) Rumworth 14th May OK
Avocet Elton Reservoir 23rd July OK
Brent Goose (2) Kingsway 11th January OK
Brent Goose (7) Elton Reservoir 10th November OK
Caspian Gull Ashworth Moor Reservoir 11th January NP
Caspian Gull Audenshaw Reservoirs 22nd November OK
Cetti's Warbler Wigan Flashes 20th December OK
Common Redpoll Worthington Lakes 2nd January OK
Common Redpoll Heaton Park 5th January NP
Common Redpoll Pickley Green 2nd February OK
Common Redpoll Platt Bridge 2nd March OK
Curlew Sandpiper (2) Elton Reservoir 1st June OK
Curlew Sandpiper (2) Pennington Flash 4th September OK
Curlew Sandpiper Elton Reservoir 6th September OK
Dotterel Axletree Edge 26th April OK
Dotterel (2) Axletree Edge 27th April OK
Eider River Roch, Rochdale 5th January OK
Fieldfares Elton Reservoir 12th August NP
Goshawk Turton Heights 4th November 2007 NP
Goshawk Pennington Flash 10th November NP
Great Northern Diver Pennington Flash 21st January OK
Great Northern Diver Hollingworth Lake 5th November OK
Great Northern Diver Hollingworth Lake 26th November OK
Great Northern Diver Ogden Reservoir 27th November OK
Hawfinch (2) Jumbles Reservoir 12th November OK
Little Egret Birtle 7th January OK
Little Egret Highfield Moss 27th February OK
Little Egret Dunham 4th February OK
Little Egret Pennington Flash 21st February OK
Little Egret Hale Barns 4th April OK
Little Egret Lower Bredbury 20th April OK
Little Egret Pennington Flash 9th May OK
Little Egret Horrock's Flash 21st May OK
Little Egret Broad Ees Dole 30th June OK
Little Egret Whitefield 23rd August OK
Little Egret Pennington Flash 22nd October OK
Little Stint Kingsway Business Park 15th May OK
Marsh Warbler Pennington Flash 12th June 2006 OK
'Nordic' Jackdaw Dunham 8th March OK
Pallid Swift Etherow Country Park 21st March NP
Pectoral Sandpiper Hope Carr Nature Reserve 6th May OK
Red Kite Tottington 24th February OK
Red Kite Ramsbottom 17th March OK
Red Kite Otterspool 4th April OK
Red Kite Aspull 30th May OK
Red Kite Swinton 15th June OK
Red Kite Stalybridge/Mossley 24th June OK
Red Kite Crompton Moor 27th June OK
Red Kite Smallbridge, Rochdale 28th June OK
Rose-coloured Starling Birtle 18th September OK
Shag Audenshaw Reservoirs 20th August OK
Slavonian Grebe Audenshaw Reservoirs 25th October OK
Slavonian Grebe Pennington Flash 28th October OK
Spoonbill Light Hazzles Reservoir 10th May OK
White Stork Didsbury 11th March OK (considered escape)
Wryneck Rochdale 25th April NP
Yellow-legged Gull Heaton Park Reservoir 9th October OK
Yellow-legged Gull Pennington Flash 20th October OK
Yellow-legged Gull Castleshaw Reservoirs 22nd October OK
Yellow-legged Gull Audenshaw Reservoir 29th October OK
       

 

 

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