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Sunday 31st July 2022  
  Today was a notable day for discoveries with in Aberdeenshire a Terek Sandpiper briefly at Loch of Strathbeg and a Black Scoter at Blackdog, in Highland a Franklin's Gull on the Isle of Skye at Broadford Bay, a Whiskered Tern in Hampshire at Fishlake Meadows, a Lesser Yellowlegs on the Isles of Scilly on Tresco, at least one Ferruginous Duck in Northamptonshire at Daventry Reservoir, Black Kites in both Buckinghamshire and Powys, and new White-rumped Sandpipers in both County Kerry and Northumberland.

Rarities elsewhere comprised the Greater Yellowlegs still in County Kildare, Turkestan Shrike and Black-browed Albatross both still together in East Yorkshire, Stilt Sandpiper in Lincolnshire, Least Sandpiper in Cornwall, Squacco Heron in West Sussex, Gull-billed Tern and Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Lesser Yellowlegs in both Hampshire and Norfolk, two Wilson's Petrels at sea off the Isles of Scilly, and in Norfolk at least nine Bee-eaters still at the colony at Trimingham.

Scarcities included Night Heron (Kent), Temminck's Stint (Lancashire), Spotted Crake (Perth and Kinross), Long-tailed Skua (Scilly), Ring-necked Duck (Anglesey), two Pectoral Sandpipers, three Purple Herons, 10 Great Shearwaters, 19 Glossy Ibises, and a total of 151 Cory's Shearwaters.
Chris Batty, RBA
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