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Sunday 27th September 2009  
  The main news was the identification of a first-winter Taiga Flycatcher on Fetlar, Shetland for its fifth day, and a probable Brown Shrike in Cornwall for its second day. Other new arrivals today comprised an Isabelline Wheatear at Great Bromley, and a Gyr Falcon at Harlow, both Essex, an Aquatic Warbler at Salford Priors Gravel Pits, Warwickshire, a Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll on Foula, Shetland, a Bonaparte's Gull on Anglesey and a second Long-billed Dowitcher at Inner Marsh Farm RSPB, Cheshire.

New American Golden Plovers were on Shetland and in Somerset, whilst Glossy Ibises were seen in Cornwall, Cambridgeshire (4), South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Norfolk (2), Somerset, Kent (5), Northumberland, County Wexford, Suffolk (3) and West Sussex.

The Sandhill Crane remained on Orkney, as did the Arctic Warbler on Shetland, White-rumped Sandpiper in Essex, Blue-winged Teals in Cleveland and County Dublin, Long-billed Dowitchers on Scilly and in Somerset, Lesser Yellowlegs in Lothian and Citrine Wagtail in County Waterford.
Will Soar, RBA
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