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Friday 3rd June 2022  
  The male Least Tern returned to the Portrane Little Tern colony in County Dublin for its third year.

Other new discoveries today included a Thrush Nightingale on Lundy, Devon, a Rustic Bunting at Nanjizal, Cornwall, two Black-winged Stilts at Stodmarsh, Kent and single Bee-eaters at Hickling, Norfolk, Portland, Dorset, Spurn, Yorkshire and both Barra and North Uist, Western Isles.

Lingering rarities still present included the Eleonora's Falcon and Red-footed Falcon in Kent, Short-toed Eagle in Highland, Black-browed Albatross in Yorkshire, Great Reed Warbler in Norfolk, Iberian Chiffchaff in London, Squacco Heron in County Cork, Lesser Scaup in Merseyside, Ferruginous Duck in Staffordshire, King Eider in Lothian, Black Duck and Azorean Yellow-legged Gull in County Mayo, White-rumped Sandpiper in County Wexford and American Black Tern in Northumberland.

Scarcity highlights included a Serin, a Woodchat Shrike, a Golden Oriole, a Common Rosefinch, a Marsh Warbler, two Rose-coloured Starlings, four Icterine Warblers, an American Golden Plover, a Red-necked Phalarope, two Purple Herons, two Ring-necked Ducks, a Ring-billed Gull, two Iceland Gulls and three Roseate Terns.
Will Soar, RBA
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