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Wednesday 20th April 2022  
  Discoveries today included two Black-winged Stilts together in Norfolk at Welney, Red-rumped Swallows in both Suffolk and East Sussex, and Black Kites in Dorset and Kent, but in the main these were just brief enconters.

Rarities elsewhere comprised the Crag Martin still on the Isles of Scilly, Pacific Golden Plover and Lesser Yellowlegs both still in Suffolk, Red-breasted Goose and Dusky Warbler in Norfolk, King Eiders in Highland and Lothian, Black-winged Stilts in Berkshire (2) and Merseyside, Lesser Scaups in Somerset and Staffordshire (2), Lesser Yellowlegs in County Cork and County Wexford, and White-billed Divers in Aberdeenshire (5), Moray (8), Shetland Isles, whilst in County Galway the Ross's Gull reappeared at Mutton Island where it had last been seen on 24th March.

Scarcities included Temminck's Stint (Norfolk), American Wigeon (Moray), Spotted Crake (Fife), Snow Goose (Merseyside), Lapland Bunting (Pembrokeshire), two each of both Green-winged Teal and Kumlien's Gull, three Hoopoes, five Purple Herons, six Surf Scoters, eight Dotterel, 10 Ring-necked Ducks, and a total of 24 Glossy Ibises.
Chris Batty, RBA
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