Friday 27th August 2021
	A Fea's or Desertas Petrel flew north past Cowbar, Cleveland this evening, before being tracked along the coast through County Durham and Northumberland. The Elegant Tern relocated to Hodbarrow, Cumbria, with new discoveries including an Arctic Warbler on Fair Isle, Shetland and single Greenish Warblers on Great Saltee Island, County Wexford and at Whitby, Yorkshire (joining another lingering bird). Other lingering rarities included the White-tailed Lapwing and Black-browed Albatross in Yorkshire, Black Stork in Lincolnshire, Forster's Tern in County Louth, Long-billed Dowitcher in Carmarthenshire and Bonaparte's Gull in Kent. Scarcity highlights included an Icterine Warbler, a Red-backed Shrike, a Rose-coloured Starling, 11 Barred Warblers, 17 Wrynecks, a Grey Phalarope, a Pectoral Sandpiper, two American Golden Plovers, three Temminck's Stints, a Honey Buzzard, a Purple Heron, eight Glossy Ibises, five Sabine's Gulls, two Pomarine Skuas, 29 Long-tailed Skuas and a Ring-billed Gull.
-  Will Soar, RBA