Tuesday 24th August 2021
	Discoveries today included a Black-winged Pratincole briefly in Hampshire at East Dean with a further pratincole species briefly at Annesley Pit Top, Nottinghamshire, a Caspian Tern in Suffolk off Southwold, and Greenish Warblers in Norfolk at Horsey and on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. Rarities elsewhere comprised the Least Tern still in County Dublin, Forster's Tern still in County Louth, Black Stork in Lincolnshire, Long-billed Dowitcher in Carmarthenshire, both Lesser Yellowlegs and Wilson's Petrel on Scilly, Bonaparte's Gulls in both Kent and the Shetland Isles, Black Kite in Pembrokeshire, Baltic Gull in Oxfordshire, and Greenish Warblers in both East Yorkshire (2) and Shetland. Scarcities included American Golden Plover (Orkney Isles), Pectoral Sandpiper (County Durham), Montagu's Harrier (Norfolk), Cory's Shearwater and Rose-coloured Starling (East Yorkshire), three each of Melodious Warbler, Barred Warbler, Common Rosefinch, Red-backed Shrike, and Wryneck, four Glossy Ibises, and a total of six Long-tailed Skuas.
-  Chris Batty, RBA