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Cream-coloured Courser - Isles of Scilly - 2nd Oct 2004

  The first British record for 20 years. A bird of arid grasslands and deserts, breeding from the Canary Islands, eastwards across to North & East Africa into Iraq and then from southwest Asia towards Afganistan.   This bird was first discovered on St.Agnes on 28th September. It was on on St.Agnes for a short time before it then disappeared. It was eventually re-located on St.Martin’s on 29th September. Fortunately remaining long enough for me to visit the islands on 2nd October.           A mythical bird that performed well showing down to 15-20 feet on occasions. These pictures were digi-scoped. The bird […]

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