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Saturday 23rd July 2016  
  The fifth Western Sandpiper for Ireland was discovered in County Wexford today, at Tacumshin. Other new discoveries included a Caspian Tern and Alpine Swift in Norfolk, three sightings of single Black Storks in Kent and a Bee-eater in Dorset.

Lingering rarities included the American White-winged Scoter and White-rumped Sandpiper in Aberdeenshire, Hudsonian Whimbrel and Dalmatian Pelican in Cornwall, two Little Bitterns in Somerset, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent and White-rumped Sandpiper in Norfolk.
-  Will Soar, RBA