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Friday 27th September 2013  
  Today's eastern Mega on Shetland was a Brown Shrike at Wester Quarff, Mainland this evening. Also new on the islands were three Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls at Sullom, and a Booted Warbler on the Out Skerries for its second day.

Other new discoveries today included a Greenish Warbler in a garden at Killimster, Highland, a Blyth's Reed Warbler trapped on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, a Western Bonelli's Warbler at Garinish, County Cork, a Rustic Bunting at Whitburn, County Durham, a Black Kite over Christchurch Harbour, Dorset, a Black-winged Stilt on the Hayle Estuary, Cornwall, a Baird's Sandpiper on Carrahane Strand, County Kerry, single American Golden Plovers at Lough Foyle, County Derry and Ballycotton, County Cork and single Red-breasted Geese at Mersehead RSPB, Dumfries and Galloway and in Langstone Harbour, Hampshire. Glossy Ibises were seen at Leighton Moss RSPB, Lancashire (12), Doffcocker, Greater Manchester, Ynys-hir RSPB, Ceredigion, Gillan, Cornwall and Chew Valley Lake and Blagdon Lake, Somerset.

Lingering rarity highlights included the Brown Shrike on North Ronaldsay, Sykes's Warbler on Fair Isle, Sardinian Warbler in Borders, Booted Warbler in County Wexford, Arctic Warbler, Western Subalpine Warbler and Blyth's Reed Warbler on Shetland (with another of the latter in County Durham), Siberian Stonechat in Gwynedd and Laughing Gull on Orkney.
Will Soar, RBA
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