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| Eyebrowed Thrush - photo: Robert tdc/flickr via Wikimedia Commons |
AN Eyebrowed Thrush that has spent part of this week on St Mary's Island in The Scillies has delighted those birders lucky enough to have seen it.
It is probably one of only about 30 to have been recorded in Britain - most on islands though with a few on the mainland.
The first record, back on October 5, 1964, was perhaps the most unlikely.
It turned up amist an influx of Song Thrushes in the garden in Oundle, Northamptonshire, of Mrs Winifred Smith and son Martin.
It was variously feeding on yew berries and drinking or bathing at a garden pool.
Mother and son were gracious enough to allow experts into their home to identify the bird through a window.
A forest species, the Eyebrowed Thrush typically migrates from Siberia and Mongolia to China and South-east Asia where it spends winter.
This week's latest Scillies vagrant was first detected on Tuesday of this week and was still present yesterday.
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| A magnet for vagrant birds. Photo: visitislesofscilly.com |
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| How Letchworth Garden City enthusiast James Walsh descibed his delight on social media platform X. The bird is believed to be the eighth for The Scillies but the first since 1983. |
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