Just had a mega - a 'wholly unconfirmed report' of a Pacific Swift at Collingham late morning on Tuesday - no doubt the same bird that I heard about from Besthorpe that afternoon. There's nothing about it on the Notts Birdwatchers website, so I've no idea where this has come from. And given that there have been two reports of Pacific Swift in the last two days (from Norfolk and Suffolk) that have both proved to be aberrant Common Swifts, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this!
Also on the pager (well, Twitter), the Ficedula flycatcher at Flamborough has turned out to be a... Pied Flycatcher! I've not had a chance to read the Surfbirds forum yet for people's views on this, but it seems amazing that this bird can be 'just' a Pied Flycatcher, given it's appearance.
In other news, having spent most of the day at Newark Show, a quick visit to Kilvington produced 5 Dunlin on the West Lake and a tardy Goldeneye (a 1st S male) on the East Lake but not much else, whilst a failed attempt for Grizzled Skipper at Staunton Quarry produced a Willow Tit. Hopefully tomorrow might turn something up.
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