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Wednesday 27th April 2022  
  The highlight of the day was the discovery of a Broad-billed Sandpiper in Merseyside at Marshside with other new rarities today comprising a Subalpine Warbler species in East Yorkshire at Spurn, a Bonaparte's Gull in Carmarthenshire at Llanelli, and Red-rumped Swallows in Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Lincolnshire, and the Isles of Scilly. A Black-winged Stilt in Buckinghamshire at Water Eaton was apparently the same individual as that present in Merseyside on 18th-26th April after having migrated 150 miles southeast overnight.

Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were the Black-browed Albatross in East Yorkshire, Pallid Harrier and King Eider together in Aberdeenshire, Red-breasted Goose in Norfolk, Blue-winged Teal in Cambridgeshire, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll on the Shetland Isles, Dusky Warblers in both London and Norfolk, Bonaparte's Gull in County Wexford, and White-billed Divers in County Durham, Moray, and Northumberland.

Scarcities included Short-toed Lark (Shetland), Serin (Scilly), Hoopoe (Somerset), Honey Buzzard (Pembrokeshire), American Wigeon (Northumberland), Green-winged Teal (County Wexford), two each of Wryneck and Surf Scoter, three Ring-necked Ducks, and a total of 18 Glossy Ibises.
Chris Batty, RBA
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