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Tuesday 28th June 2022  
  Rarities today comprised the Turkestan Shrike and Black-browed Albatross still together in East Yorkshire at Bempton Cliffs, territorial Great Reed Warblers in both Norfolk and Nottinghamshire, Iberian Chiffchaff in London, the family of six Black-winged Stilts in South Yorkshire, and Bee-eaters in Norfolk (6) and Bee-eater Suffolk.

Seawatching produced 617 Cory's Shearwaters, seven Great Shearwaters, 10 Sabine's Gulls, and a nine Long-tailed Skuas all passing Galley Head, County Cork, with further Cory's Shearwaters seen from eight locations between County Cork and Dorset.

Otherwise scarcities included Serin (East Sussex), American Golden Plover (County Wexford), Ring-billed Gull (County Clare), Ring-necked Duck (County Mayo), two Rose-coloured Starlings, and a total of four Glossy Ibises.
-  Chris Batty, RBA