Penny's Hot Birding and Life!: STOP PRESS! MEGA! WESTERN PURPLE SWAMPHEN AT MINSMERE RSPB, SUFFOLK!!!

Sunday, 31 July 2016

STOP PRESS! MEGA! WESTERN PURPLE SWAMPHEN AT MINSMERE RSPB, SUFFOLK!!!

FIRST FOR BRITAIN!!!

IF ACCEPTED!

WESTERN PURPLE SWAMPHEN (Purple Gallinule)
On pool behind South hide at 2.05pm for 2nd day at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk [one in Morbihan, Brittany, France on 20th July].

Pictures HERE. Discussion HERE. Also see picture of possibly the same bird in Brittany last week HERE.

Also CASPIAN TERN flew south over North Wall and may have landed on East Scrape at Minsmere RSPB.

1 comment:

Tim31 July 2016 at 22:45
Looks like a Purple Galinule to me....
one of her pix is wonderfully clear...
seen them often in Mallorca...
and nice to see that you are posting!!
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