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Sunday 16th August 2020  
 

A Red-rumped Swallow flew over Hook Head in Co.Wexford. Greenish Warblers were found in Norfolk (at foursites), Suffolk and East Yorkshire (two).

Continuing rarities included the Pacific Golden Plover in Northumberland, Citrine Wagtail in Gloucestershire, Spotted Sandpiper in Cornwall, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Greenish Warblers in Norfolk and Fife, Gull-billed Terns in Suffolk and Co.Wexford, the Black-winged Stilt family in Somerset and the Lammergeier in Derbyshire.

The best of the rest were Night Heron (Berkshire), six Icterine Warblers, six Barred Warblers, eight Wrynecks, eight Red-backed Shrikes, Purple Heron (Somerset), Spotted Crake (Cheshire), Rose-coloured Starling (Dorset), White-winged Black Tern (Northumberland), Common Rosefinch (Shetland), Ortolan Bunting (nocmig in Kent), Sabine's Gull (Highland), four Temminck's Stints, Pectoral Sandpiper (Greater Manchester) and three Glossy Ibises. There was a continued good movement of Long-tailed Skuas on the east coast.
-  David Campbell, RBA