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Monday 10th May 2021  
  Rarities discovered today comprised a Kentish Plover in Northumberland on Holy Island, a Citrine Wagtail on the Shetland Isles briefly at Loch of Spiggie, a Red-rumped Swallow in Lincolnshire at Gibraltar Point, and Red-footed Falcons seen in flight in both Norfolk and Suffolk.

Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were Calandra Lark, Rustic Bunting, and Hooded Merganser all still on Shetland, the mobile Black Stork in Kent, both Tawny Pipit and Whiskered Tern in Dorset, Blue-winged Teal in Cornwall, Lesser Yellowlegs on the Isles of Scilly, and Bonaparte's Gulls in both Highland and Nottinghamshire.

Scarcities included Little Bunting and Wryneck (Shetland), Serin (Dorset), Purple Heron (Norfolk), Red-backed Shrike (County Cork), Long-tailed Skua (East Sussex), Surf Scoter (Lothian), Ring-necked Duck (Cheshire), two each of Red-necked Phalarope and Lapland Bunting, three Woodchat Shrikes, four Temminck's Stints, five of Hoopoe and Grey-headed Wagtail, six Glossy Ibises, eight Golden Orioles, and a total of nine migrant Dotterel.
Chris Batty, RBA
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