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Sunday 31st October 2021  
  Rarities today comprised the Varied Thrush still on the Orkney Isles, a Radde's Warbler new on the Isle of May, Fife, White-tailed Lapwing still in East Yorkshire, American Buff-bellied Pipit in Cornwall, Spotted Sandpiper, Lesser Scaup, and Olive-backed Pipit all on the Isles of Scilly, Lesser Scaup in Somerset, Ferruginous Duck in Staffordshire, King Eiders in both Lothian and Moray, and in County Cork the Pacific Diver returned to Crookhaven.

Scarcities included Short-toed Lark (Norfolk), Pallas's Warbler (Shetland Isles), Barred Warbler (Devon), American Golden Plover (Cornwall), Red-backed Shrike (Argyll), Pectoral Sandpiper (Lancashire), Long-tailed Skua (Aberdeenshire), Great Grey Shrike (Hampshire), Dotterel (Suffolk), Ring-billed Gull (County Louth), Lapland Bunting (Ceredigion), two each of Hoopoe, Sabine's Gull, and Great Shearwater, three Richard's Pipits, five of Surf Scoter, Green-winged Teal, and Shorelark, six Yellow-browed Warblers, 10 Glossy Ibises, and a total of 12 Ring-necked Ducks.
Chris Batty, RBA
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