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Monday 21st June 2010  
  Headline birds today were a Paddyfield Warbler on the Shetland Isles at Grutness and a Terek Sandpiper in County Dublin at the Rogerstown Estuary. Elsewhere, a mobile Caspian Tern was located in Aberdeenshire, the Blue-winged Teal continued to linger in Cambridgeshire, as did the Great Reed Warbler in Derbyshire and the Red-footed Falcon in East Sussex.

Scarcities included Purple Heron (Kent), White-spotted Bluethroat (Norfolk), Common Rosefinch (Forth), Temminck's Stint (Aberdeenshire), Ring-necked Duck (Perth and Kinross) and both Serin and Red-necked Phalarope in Lincolnshire.
-  Chris Batty, RBA