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Wednesday 1st July 2009  
  The place to be today was Blennerville in County Kerry in south west Ireland, where the discovery of a Caspian Tern in the late morning was bettered in the afternoon when an adult Audouin's Gull was found. The latter is the first record for Ireland.

A Cattle Egret was seen briefly at Belmont Reservoir in Lancashire in the evening.

The Marsh Warbler remained in Oxfordshire, nine Spoonbills were at Cley in Norfolk and a Red-necked Phalarope was still on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Otherwise the autumn wader passage is starting to get underway with common species such as Green Sandpipers and Greenshanks being seen at many sites. An unseasonal Arctic Skua was at Grafham Water in Cambridgeshire in the evening.
Pete Hayman, RBA
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