I found these recent North American visitors to the British Isles at
<http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~nhi019/birdnews.html>
It'd sure be nice if we were finding as many Asian species around here as
they've been finding of ours!


Summary of Amercian visitors:

Friday 13th October 1995:

The Yellow-Rumped Warbler mentioned below is on North Ronaldsay.

New birds:

Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) - now up to 12 with two new birds on the
east coast in Suffolk 12-13/10.

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronata) - 1 on Scilly and now one in
Orkney 13/10

Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia) - 2 in southern Ireland 12/10 (first
Irish records)

Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) - 1 in Ireland and now 1 on Scilly 12/10

Oldies:

Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) - 1 on Lundy
Tennessee Warbler(Vermivora peregrina) - 1 on St Kilda
Dendroica sp - 1 (probably Blackpoll?) in Cornwall
Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)- 1 in Yorks
Semi-palmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) - 1 in Devon

There have also been several more Monarch butterflies along the south coast
and south Wales

There is (was?) a Red-eyed Vireo in Southwold Churchyard yesterday.
Amazingly this is the third record for
Suffolk in the last few years.

There is also another one- fourth record- at Thorpeness.

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