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Sunday 15th May 2022  
  Discoveries today included a Baird's Sandpiper in Highland at Balnakeil, in Lincolnshire a Rustic Bunting at Horse Shoe Point and a Broad-billed Sandpiper at Gibraltar Point, in Nottinghamshire Great Reed Warbler at Lound and three Black-winged Stilts together at Langford Lowfields, Bonaparte's Gull in County Cork, Black Kite in East Sussex, and in Suffolk up to 22 Bee-eaters in two parties.

Rarities elsewhere comprised the Black-browed Albatross still in East Yorkshire, Snowy Owl on the Western Isles, American Black Tern in Northumberland, Spotted Sandpiper in Greater Manchester, Red-breasted Goose and three Black-winged Stilts in Norfolk, territorial Iberian Chiffchaff in London, Red-footed Falcon in Berkshire, Red-rumped Swallow on the Orkney Isles, and White-billed Divers in Moray, Shetland Isles (2), and the Western Isles.

Scarcities included Woodchat Shrike (Somerset), Common Rosefinch and Wryneck (County Wexford), Montagu's Harrier and Hoopoe (Cornwall), Red-necked Phalarope (Northumberland), Ring-necked Duck (Forth), two each of Bluethroat, Purple Heron, American Wigeon, Long-tailed Skua, and Kumlien's Gull, three of Pectoral Sandpiper, Honey Buzzard, and Green-winged Teal, four Golden Orioles, 12 Glossy Ibises, and a total of 16 Temminck's Stints.
Chris Batty, RBA
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