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Sunday 2nd September 2018  
  Two Citrine Wagtails were discovered today, in Norfolk and Isles of Scilly, whilst the Stilt Sandpiper and Long-billed Dowitcher (Lincolnshire), Hooded Merganser, Greenish Warbler and Arctic Warbler (Shetland), Snowy Owl (Western Isles), Greenish Warbler (Northumberland), Ferruginous Duck (Essex) and Forster's Tern (Co Louth) all lingered.

The best of the rest included American Golden Plover (Argyll), Pectoral Sandpiper (Lothian), Purple Heron (Essex), Dotterel (Kent), Hoopoe (Glamorgan), Corncrake (Cornwall), Rose-coloured Starling (Devon), two Temminck's Stints, Buff-breasted Sandpipers and Red-backed Shrikes, three Melodious Warblers and Red-necked Phalaropes, five Barred Warblers, six Spotted Crakes and Common Rosefinches, eight Ortolan Buntings and 13 Wrynecks.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA