Friday 14th August 2020
	The highlight of the day was the discovery of both a Thrush Nightingale and a Citrine Wagtail on the Shetland Isles; on Fair Isle and at Boddam, Mainland, respectively. New rarities elsewhere comprised a White-rumped Sandpiper in Leicestershire at Rutland Water, Kentish Plover in Dorset at Stanpit Marsh, a Bee-eater briefly in Lincolnshire at Glentham, and in County Wexford the Gull-billed Tern returned to Tacumshin. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Lammergeier still in Derbyshire, Forster's Tern in County Louth, Pacific Golden Plover in Northumberland, Gull-billed Tern in Suffolk, Spotted Sandpiper in Cornwall, Black-winged Stilt in Somerset, Greenish Warblers in both Fife and Northumberland, Bonaparte's Gulls in Argyll and Kent, and six Wilson's Petrels at sea off the Isles of Scilly. Scarcities included White-winged Black Tern (Northumberland), Purple Heron (Somerset), Spotted Crake (Cheshire), Temminck's Stint (Hertfordshire), Dotterel (West Midlands), two each of Icterine Warbler, Common Rosefinch, Rose-coloured Starling, American Golden Plover, Sabine's Gull, and Glossy Ibis, four Barred Warblers, seven each of Cory's Shearwater and Red-backed Shrike, at least 15 Long-tailed Skuas, and a total of 42 Great Shearwaters.
-  Chris Batty, RBA