Saturday 22nd August 2020
	Seawatching dominated the day with the standout bird being a Band-rumped Petrel species that passed Pendeen Watch, Cornwall in the evening. Other seabirds today included Wilson's Petrels logged from Cornwall (3), County Kerry, and at sea off the Isles of Scilly (12), two Cory's Shearwaters, four Leach's Petrels, 10 Long-tailed Skuas, 62 Sabine's Gulls, and a total of 73 Great Shearwaters. Rarities elsewhere were a Greenish Warbler new in Lothian at Barns Ness with others still in Fife and on the Shetland Isles, the Lammergeier still in Derbyshire, Black Duck in Highland, Pacific Golden Plover in Northumberland, Gull-billed Tern in County Cork, Citrine Wagtail in Gwynedd, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, and Spotted Sandpipers still in both Cornwall and County Down. Scarcities included White-winged Black Tern (Northumberland), Icterine Warbler (Shetland), Common Rosefinch (Orkney Isles), Temminck's Stint (Lincolnshire), two each of Melodious Warbler, Purple Heron, Hoopoe, Spotted Crake, Pectoral Sandpiper and Glossy Ibis, three Wrynecks, four Barred Warblers, and 10 each of both Red-backed Shrike and Dotterel.
-  Chris Batty, RBA