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News broke at 15:53 of a possible Least Bittern in the car park at Scousborough Beach, I was just walking back to my car having just seen the two Yellow-rumped Warbler. It was a mad dash southwards which took around 10 minutes and i managed to get the last parking space outside the Loch Spiggie RSPB hide. The walk to the beach car park seemed to take forever but as I arrived the bird was on show sitting in the Marram grass. I took a few photos before the bird then buried itself deep under the Marram Grass. It was clearly exhausted. Numbers of birders began to swell and because it was only visible through a narrow window a queue system was set-up, by now only a small patch of the birds wing and flank was visible. It was chaotic with the queueing birders pushing and shoving and jumping the queue, I stood back and watched the chaos. It was eventually announced that the bird would be captured and taken into care and so I stayed to watch this getting good in hand views before the bird was whisked away. Sadly the bird passed away overnight.
Found at 15:53 and I arrived in time to see the bird standing in a small open area in the Marram Grass of the dunes before hiding itself in a tunnel in the grass, the bird was clearly exhausted after its Atlantic crossing. The bird was later taken into care but died overnight. This will be the first record for the UK assuming it is accepted.
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Found at 15:53 and I arrived in time to see the bird standing in a small open area in the Marram Grass of the dunes before hiding itself in a tunnel in the grass, the bird was clearly exhausted after its Atlantic crossing. The bird was later taken into care but died overnight. This will be the first record for the UK assuming it is accepted.