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Sunday 21st June 2020  
  In County Wexford, the identity of the tern present at Lady's Island Lake since 12th June was confirmed as a Cayenne Tern, the euryganthus form of Cabot's Tern. There is a single accepted record of Cabot's Tern in Britain, a dead bird found in Herefordshire in 1984 which had been ringed in North Carolina.

New discoveries today included a Gull-billed Tern at Ballycotton, County Cork, a Great Reed Warbler at Asta, Shetland, a Black-winged Stilt at Dungeness, Kent and a Bee-eater over Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

Lingering rarities included the Iberian Chiffchaff in Suffolk, Blyth's Reed Warbler in Lincolnshire and Red-footed Falcon in Somerset.

Scarcity highlights included a Serin, a Marsh Warbler, nine Rose-coloured Starlings, a Night Heron, a Red-necked Phalarope, a Balearic Shearwater, two Pomarine Skuas, a Ring-billed Gull, a Glossy Ibis and two Honey Buzzards.
-  Will Soar, RBA