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Sunday 16th August 2015  
  Today's headline discoveries included a Fea's Petrel seen from a pelagic off the Isles of Scilly and a Spotted Sandpiper in Wiltshire (which was present for its second day). Elsewhere rarities comprised Wilson's Petrels off Co Cork (2) and Isles of Scilly, Black Stork in Aberdeenshire, Bee-eaters in Cumbria, White-rumped Sandpipers in Kent and Aberdeenshire, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Red-footed Falcon in Lincolnshire, Aquatic Warbler and Paddyfield Warbler in Shetland and Thrush Nightingale in Northumberland.

The best of the rest included Sabine's Gull (Greater Manchester), Pectoral Sandpiper (Co Meath), Spotted Crake (East Yorkshire), Surf Scoter (Angus), White-winged Black Tern (Devon), two Red-backed Shrikes, two Icterine Warblers, two Purple Herons, two Rose-coloured Starlings, three Wrynecks and four Barred Warblers.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA