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Friday 18th September 2009  
  New eastern vagrants today included another Arctic Warbler on Shetland, on Whalsay, and a Rustic Bunting at Spurn, Yorkshire. Other new arrivals included a Bee-eater over Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, at least one Glossy Ibis in Norfolk (with a roaming flock of nine or ten in South Wales, six in Cambridgeshire and one in each of Suffolk and County Wexford) and single Great White Egrets in Dorset and Kent.

Lingering rarities included Long-billed Dowitcher in Fife, Spotted Sandpiper in County Kerry, Blue-winged Teal in County Dublin, Snowy Owl in County Mayo, Greenish Warbler in Suffolk, Lesser Yellowlegs' in Aberdeenshire and Lothian, White-rumped Sandpiper in Essex and King Eider in Lincolnshire.
Will Soar, RBA
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