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Tuesday 19th October 2021  
  The Shetland Isles provided the highlights today with a White's Thrush on Out Skerries, a Hume's Warbler on Mainland (at Boddam) along with Radde's Warbler, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Great Grey Shrike, three Blyth's Reed Warblers, and three Little Buntings, on Fair Isle Red-flanked Bluetail, Olive-backed Pipit, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Little Bunting, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Surf Scoter, and Spotted Crake, and on Unst a Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll.

Discoveries elsewhere included an Eastern Stonechat species on the Orkney Isles on Eday, a Dusky Warbler in Fife at Kilminning, and in County Waterford a Lesser Yellowlegs at Tramore.

Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were both the Two-barred Greenish Warbler and White-tailed Lapwing in East Yorkshire, Semipalmated Plover in County Cork, American Buff-bellied Pipit and two Cackling Geese on the Western Isles, Baird's Sandpipers in both Nottinghamshire and Somerset, Wilson's Phalarope in County Wexford, Semipalmated Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs in Cornwall, Dusky Warbler in Lothian, and Lesser Yellowlegs in both Couty Clare and County Wicklow.
Chris Batty, RBA
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