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Wednesday 16th September 2020  
 

The pick of the day's finds were a Spotted Sandpiper on Unst, Shetland, two Black-winged Stilts at Christchurch Harbour in Dorset, a Bee-eater flew over St.Levan in Cornwall, a Greenish Warbler at Wells Woods in Norfolk and a Citrine Wagtail at Grutness on Mainland Shetland.

The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher showed for the first to reach Tiree, while other continuing rarities included the Bonaparte's Gull in Co.Cork, Citrine Wagtail in Shetland, Black Kite in Cornwall, Long-billed Dowitcher in Cumbria, Lesser Yellowlegs in Norfolk, Spotted Sandpiper on Scilly Semipalmated Sandpipers in Cornwall and Western Isles, Baird's Sandpipers in Cornwall, Highland and Orkney, and the Lammergeier in Derbyshire.

Scarcity highlights included two Red-breasted Flycatchers (both Norfolk), Little Bunting (Fair Isle), two Ortolan Buntings, three Woodchat Shrikes, seven Wrynecks, five Common Rosefinches, two Rose-coloured Starlings, four Barred Warblers, five Yellow-browed Warblers, American Golden Plover (Kent), Dotterel (Cornwall), nine Pectoral Sandpipers, three Buff-breasted Sandpipers, 11 Sabine's Gulls, Cory's Shearwater (East Yorkshire) and seven Glossy Ibises.
-  David Campbell, RBA