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Friday 20th September 2019  
 

A Subalpine Warbler sp at Pennington Marshes in Hampshire and White-rumped Sandpiper at Tophill Low in East Yorkshire were today's finds.

Meanwhile, existing rarities still with us were the Blue-winged Teal in Co.Wexford, Black-winged Stilt in Berkshire, Lesser Yellowlegs in Devon, Pembrokeshire and Scilly, Long-billed Dowitchers in Dorset, West Yorkshire and Western Isles, and Semipalmated Sandpipers in Western Isles, Co.Kerry and Co.Wexford.

There was also a Bluethroat (Hampshire), two Red-backed Shrikes, Rose-coloured Starling (Anglesey), three Barred Warblers, four Yellow-browed Warblers, four Wrynecks, two Common Rosefinches, 45 Lapland Buntings, Spotted Crake (Essex), 10 American Golden Plovers, five Pectoral Sandpipers, three Buff-breasted Sandpipers, Red-necked Phalarope (Merseyside), three Grey Phalaropes, two Sabine's Gulls, three Long-tailed Skuas and seven Pomarine Skuas.
-  David Campbell, RBA