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Thursday 21st September 2006  
  The Shetland Isles continued to hog the limelight with Fetlar hosting Pechora Pipit, Black-headed Bunting, Booted Warbler and Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Fair Isle still holding Pechora Pipit, Aquatic Warbler and Buff-breasted Sandpiper and on Shetland Mainland Arctic Warbler, Black-headed Bunting and Red-rumped Swallow.

Cornwall also produced star birds with a Little Shearwater passing Mousehole, the Least Sandpiper remaining on the Hayle Estuary and the Wilson's Phalarope at Stithians Reservoir.

Discoveries elsewhere included at Semiplamated Sandpiper in Pagham Harbour, West Sussex briefly and a Lesser Yellowlegs at Rosslare Back Strand, Co Wexford.
-  Chris Batty, RBA