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Friday 13th August 2021  
  A Greenish Warbler was found on Out Skerries, Shetland today.

Lingering rarities still present included the Least Tern in County Dublin, Elegant Tern in Merseyside, Black-browed Albatross in Yorkshire, Black-winged Pratincole in Shetland, two Pacific Golden Plovers in Lincolnshire and one in Norfolk, Long-billed Dowitcher in Cheshire, White-rumped Sandpiper in Norfolk, Bonaparte's Gulls in Shetland and Kent, Baltic Gull in Oxfordshire and five Wilson's Petrels from the Scilly pelagic.

Scarcity highlights included a Red-backed Shrike, a Rose-coloured Starling, a Barred Warbler, three Icterine Warblers, a Grey Phalarope, a Temminck's Stint, a Pectoral Sandpiper, eight Glossy Ibises, ten Sabine's Gulls, three Great Shearwaters, seven Pomarine Skuas and a Long-tailed Skua.
-  Will Soar, RBA