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Saturday 19th September 2009  
  New arrivals today included a Thrush Nightingale trapped at Gibraltar Point NNR, Lincolnshire, a Long-billed Dowitcher near Fleetwood, Lancashire, a Citrine Wagtail on Unst, Shetland, a Red-throated Pipit at Northam Burrows, Devon, an American Golden Plover in County Waterford, a White-rumped Sandpiper in County Wexford, a Baird's Sandpiper in Argyll and a Ferruginous Duck in Perth and Kinross.

Glossy Ibises continued to attract attention, with at least one very mobile group of six in Devon, Dorset and Hampshire, a further six in Cambridgeshire, one in Essex, two in Suffolk, three in Norfolk, one in County Wexford and one in Kent. Other lingerers included Arctic Warbler, Greenish Warbler, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Snowy Owl and Spotted Sandpiper.

Good numbers of scarce drift migrants continued to arrive on the east coast, with multiple Barred Warblers, Yellow-browed Warblers, Wrynecks, Red-backed Shrikes and Red-breasted Flycatchers.
Will Soar, RBA
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