AN UNUSUAL visitor from the US is
getting bird watchers in a flap — because it is only the fourth time it has
been seen in the UK.
The arrival of a belted
kingfisher on St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly is a bit of a mystery, said
ornithologist Will Wagstaff.
‘We’ve had the wrong wind for it.
We expect American birds with westerlies but we’ve had southerlies and
southeasterlies,’ he said.
The mild autumn may have seen the
bird ‘hang around in Europe’ before heading north. Another US bird — a laughing
gull — was recently seen on the nearby island of St Martin’s. ‘That’s not as
rare by any stretch but still a good rarity,’ he said.
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