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Thursday 6th September 2007  
  Nearctic waders were the flavour of the day, the highlight being a Wilson's Phalarope discovered at Christchurch Harbour, Dorset this afternoon. In southwest Ireland a juvenile Semipalmated Sandpiper was located in Ventry Harbour, Co Kerry and back in England an American Golden Plover was near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, with another reported on Rousay, Orkney. A Cattle Egret was briefly at Pagham Harbour, West Sussex, and lingering rarities included the White-winged Black Tern at Dungeness, Kent, Great White Egret at Leighton Moss RSPB, Lancashire, Blue-winged Teal at Haverton Hole, Cleveland, Spotted Sandpiper on Isles of Scilly, White-rumped Sandpiper at Breydon Water, Norfolk and Glossy Ibis at Marshside RSPB, Merseyside. The juvenile Ferruginous Duck reappeared on Hornsea Mere, East Yorkshire

A Woodchat Shrike made landfall on St Martin's, Isles of Scilly, at least two Ortolan Buntings were in Cornwall and a couple of Pectoral Sandpipers were fresh arrivals on South Uist, Western Isles.
Stuart Piner, RBA