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Thursday 11th June 2020  
  Rarities today comprised a Greenish Warbler still in East Yorkshire, Blyth's Reed Warblers in Lincolnshire, the Shetland Isles and Western Isles, Red-footed Falcons in Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Kent and West Sussex, both Savi's Warbler and White-billed Diver still on Shetland, a brief Kentish Plover in Hampshire at Weston Shore, the territorial Iberian Chiffchaff still in Suffolk, Lesser Yellowlegs in North Yorkshire, Black-winged Stilt in East Sussex, and Lesser Scaup on the Western Isles.

Scarcities included Red-breasted Flycatcher (Shetland Isles), American Wigeon (Northumberland), Glossy Ibis (Worcestershire), two migrant Red-necked Phalaropes, three Red-backed Shrikes, four Marsh Warblers, and 10 Rose-coloured Starlings bringing the total of this species in summer 2020 to 107 birds.
-  Chris Batty, RBA