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Thursday 22nd April 2021  
  Arrivals from the continent continue to be discovered with a Collared Pratincole on the Wirral at Leasowe briefly, Sardinian Warbler, Black-winged Stilt, and two Hoopoes in County Cork, the territorial Iberian Chiffchaff still in Suffolk, Bee-eater on the Isles of Scilly, Hoopoes in both Buckinghamshire and Nottinghamshire, Night Herons in Devon and the Isle of Wight, Purple Heron in Herefordshire, Wrynecks in East Sussex and Lincolnshire, and a total of eight Glossy Ibises.

Rarities elsewhere comprised a Pallid Harrier in Northumberland at East Chevington albeit briefly, the Double-crested Cormorant still in County Kerry, Belted Kingfisher still in County Cork, Bonaparte's Gulls in both Leicestershire and County Wexford, Lesser Scaup in County Donegal, Long-billed Dowitcher in North Yorkshire, Dusky Warbler in Norfolk, Richardson's Cackling Goose in Highland, White-billed Diver on the Western Isles, and two Little Buntings together in Surrey.
Chris Batty, RBA
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