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Wednesday 21st April 2021  
  Southern rarities continued to arrive today with in County Cork a Sardinian Warbler discovered on Knockadoon Head, a Black-winged Stilt new at Clonakilty, and a Hoopoe at Sheep's Head, in Cornwall Eastern Subalpine Warblers at both Land's End and Porthgwarra, and a Black-winged Stilt at Par, a Kentish Plover new in Leicestershire at Rutland Water, the territorial Iberian Chiffchaff still in Suffolk, Bee-eater on the Isles of Scilly, Wryneck in Norfolk, Night Heron in both Devon and the Isle of Wight, Purple Heron in both Herefordshire and Kent, and a total of 11 Glossy Ibises.

Other rarities today comprised the American Herring Gull still in Cornwall, Bonaparte's Gull still in Leicestershire, Spotted Sandpiper in Ayrshire, Richardson's Cackling Goose in Highland, Dusky Warbler in Norfolk, two Little Buntings together in Surrey, and in Scotland seven White-billed Divers were logged.
-  Chris Batty, RBA