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14 FEBRUARY:  AN AMERICAN IN SURREY

2/15/2018

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13:30-14:30:  Staines Reservoirs, Surrey (51.447474, -0.488676)
In a howling gale, there could be no worse conditions to locate a small bird, yet no better site to do so.  The exposed causeway at Staines has recently played host to what will, subject to a ‘split’, be the first record of an American Horned Lark in the UK.  The bird was eventually located on the southern edge of the causeway, an extremely ornate species.​  Most Horned Larks wintering in Britain do so on the north coast of Norfolk and come from northern Europe; this bird had come a lot farther.    151 species reached.
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