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Monday 26th April 2021  
  The highlight of the day was the discovery of a female Rock Thrush on the Isles of Scilly on St Mary's with elsewhere around the archipelago Red-footed Falcon, Bee-eater, Woodchat Shrike, Purple Heron, Serin, Richard's Pipit, and two Golden Orioles.

Elsewhere, other notables from the continent comprised an Eastern Subalpine Warbler, Woodchat Shrike and Bee-eater all in Cornwall, Eastern Subalpine Warbler on the Shetland Isles, Black Stork over Denbighshire then Cheshire, territorial Iberian Chiffchaff still in Suffolk, Black-winged Stilt in County Cork, Black Kites over both Anglesey and Essex, Red-rumped Swallows in County Dublin and Kent, Night Heron still in Devon, Serins in Dorset and West Sussex, Purple Herons in Herefordshire and Kent, Wrynecks in East Sussex and Gwynedd, four Hoopoes, and a total of six Glossy Ibises.

Other rarities comprised the American Herring Gull still in Cornwall, Pied-billed Grebe still in Argyll, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll and Little Bunting together on the Shetland Isles on Fair Isle, Dusky Warblers in both Mereyside and Norfolk, two Bonaparte's Gulls still together in Glamorgan, and 13 White-billed Divers between Aberdeenshire and Moray.
Chris Batty, RBA
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