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Thursday 25th June 2020  
  Rarities today comprised the Cayenne Tern still in County Wexford albeit elusive, a Greenish Warbler new in Fife on the Isle of May, Gull-billed Tern and Black-winged Stilt still together in Kent, territorial Iberian Chiffchaff in Suffolk, Lesser Yellowlegs in North Yorkshire, King Eider in Moray, and single Red-footed Falcons seen briefly in both Hertfordshire and Norfolk.

Scarcities included American Golden Plover (Orkney Isles), Icterine Warbler (Shetland Isles), Serin (Dorset), Night Heron (Herefordshire), Red-necked Phalarope and American Wigeon (together in Northumberland), and six Rose-coloured Starlings bringing the total of the current influx to 182.
-  Chris Batty, RBA