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Wednesday 19th August 2015  
  New discoveries comprised Booted Warbler and Thrush Nightingale on Shetland, Arctic Warbler in Aberdeenshire, Greenish Warblers in Orkney and Shetland [2] and Citrine Wagtail on Isles of Scilly, whilst Black Storks (Aberdeenshire and East Sussex), Red-footed Falcon (Lincolnshire), Bonaparte's Gull and White-rumped Sandpiper (Kent), Bee-eaters (Cumbria) and Spotted Sandpiper (Wiltshire) all lingered.

A scattering of scarce migrants, mainly on the east coast, included Temminck's Stint (North Yorkshire), Spotted Crake (East Yorkshire), Red-breasted Flycatcher (Fife), Common Rosefinch (Orkney), American Golden Plover (Co Donegal), Woodchat Shrike (Isles of Scilly), two Grey-headed Wagtails, two Dotterel, three Pectoral Sandpipers, five Red-backed Shrikes, ten Barred Warblers, 11 Icterine Warblers and at least 25 Wrynecks.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA