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Daily summaries are available from 13 April 2006. For earlier weekly reviews, visit our articles.

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Wednesday 13th July 2022  
  The highlights of the day were the discoveries of a Lesser Yellowlegs in Hampshire at Normandy Marsh, and a Kentish Plover in Essex at The Naze.

Rarities elsewhere comprised the Turkestan Shrike and Black-browed Albatross still together in East Yorkshire, Pied-billed Grebe still in Argyll, Caspian Terns in Cleveland (2) and Dorset, American Black Tern in Northumberland, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, the family of six Black-winged Stilts still in South Yorkshire, and in Norfolk White-rumped Sandpiper, three Bee-eaters, and six Black-winged Stilts.

Scarcities included Night Heron (Kent), Hoopoe (West Sussex), Sabine's Gull (Lancashire), Temminck's Stint (South Yorkshire), Pectoral Sandpiper (Aberdeenshire), Ring-billed Gull (County Clare), and a total of 11 Glossy Ibises.
-  Chris Batty, RBA