Sunday 21st August 2022
	Seabirds again provided the headlines with a Fea's/Desertas Petrel passing Porthgwarra, Cornwall, and totals of 41 Wilson's Petrels, six Long-tailed Skuas, nine Sabine's Gulls, 30 Cory's Shearwaters, 492 Balearic Shearwaters, and 536 Great Shearwaters. Rarities today comprised the Greater Sand Plover still in Aberdeenshire, Turkestan Shrike still in East Yorkshire, Forster's Tern in County Louth, Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll, Citrine Wagtail in Gwent, Iberian Chiffchaff in London, King Eider in Lothian, Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, the family of four Black-winged Stilts in Cheshire, Bee-eater in Dumfries and Galloway and Norfolk (9). Scarcities included Woodchat Shrike (Devon), Melodious Warbler (Dorset), Icterine Warbler and Barred Warbler (Shetland Isles), Purple Heron (Kent), Ring-billed Gull (County Louth), Dotterel (Northumberland), two each of American Golden Plover, Red-backed Shrike, and Temminck's Stint, three Pectoral Sandpipers, five Spotted Crakes, seven Wrynecks, and a total of eight Glossy Ibises.
-  Chris Batty, RBA