Images of East Lancashire rarities.

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For further enquiries regarding any images featured, please email the relevant photographer, where possible.

Margaret Breaks; mbreaks@netscape.net, Tony Disley; tdisley@aol.com, Bill Aspin; wcaspin@ntlworld.com 

Red-necked Phalarope, Burnley WWTW - 27.05.02 - Margaret Breaks.
Red-necked Phalarope, Burnley WWTW - 27.05.02 - Bill Aspin.
Spoonbill, Stocks Reservoir - 13-14.05.02 - Tony Disley.
Temmincks Stint - Brockholes Quarry - 09-10.05.02 - Tony Disley.
Ring-billed Gull, Fishmoor Res, Blackburn - 01.01.02 - Bill Aspin.
Bonapartes Gull, Rowley Lake, Burnley, 25.10.01 - Bill Aspin.
Juv Pectoral sandpiper, Champion Moor Flood, 17-22.09.00 - Bill Aspin.
Juv Pectoral Sandpiper, Champion Moor Flood, 17-22.09.00 - Bill Aspin.
Temmincks Stint, Stocks Reservoir, Lancs, 13-16.05.01 - Bill Aspin.
Little Egret, Rishton Reservoir, Lancs, 13-16.08.00 - Bill Aspin. 
Pectoral Sandpiper, Stocks Reservoir, 01-11.07.00 - Bill Aspin. 
Pectoral Sandpiper, Champion Moor Flood, 06-08.05.00 - Bill Aspin.
Great-grey Shrike, Woodend WWTW, Burnley, Lancs - February 1998 - Photographer unknown.
Isabelline Shrike, Stocks Reservoir, Lancs - November 1996 - Ian Leach.  
Juv American Golden Plover, Fishmoor Res, Lancs, Oct-Nov 1995 - Steve Young. 
Slavonian Grebe, Dean Clough Res, Lancs - April 1993  - Bill Aspin.
Grey Phalarope, Alston Reservoirs, Longridge - Sept 1992 - Bill Aspin.
Eurasian Bittern, River Ribble @ Marles Wood nr Dinckley - 23.07.84 - Photographer unknown.
Drake Ring-necked Duck, various East Lancashire waters, 1984-95 - Bill Aspin.