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Thursday 1st September 2022  
  A Lesser Sand Plover was seen briefly at Cliffe Pools RSPB, Kent mid morning, before it flew and didn't return. In Shetland, single Arctic Warblers were on Unst and Foula and a Greenish Warbler was at Quendale, with another of the latter at Flamborough, Yorkshire and a Pallid Harrier on Staines Moor, Surrey.

The Eleonora's Falcon was seen in NE Norfolk a few times, with other lingering rarities including the Greater Sand Plover in Cleveland, Lesser Yellowlegs in County Louth, Paddyfield Warbler in Orkney, Citrine Wagtail, Arctic Warbler and Blyth's Reed Warbler in Shetland, another Citrine Wagtail in Yorkshire, Greenish Warbler in Northumberland, Red-footed Falcon in Lancashire, Pied-billed Grebe in Argyll and Ferruginous Duck in Northamptonshire.

Scarcity highlights included a Serin, a Melodious Warbler, three Icterine Warblers, a Marsh Warbler, five Barred Warblers, a Golden Oriole, a Rose-coloured Starling, three Red-backed Shrikes, six Common Rosefinches, six Wrynecks, two Spotted Crakes, a Grey Phalarope, four Red-necked Phalaropes, a Temminck's Stint, two American Golden Plovers, two Dotterel, 14 Pectoral Sandpipers, a Purple Heron, 17 Glossy Ibises, a Tundra Bean Goose, a Roseate Tern, ten Pomarine Skuas, up to 42 Long-tailed Skuas, six Cory's Shearwaters, 13 Great Shearwaters, 28 Balearic Shearwaters and a Glaucous Gull.
Will Soar, RBA
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