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Monday 5th September 2022  
  The highlight of the day was a Band-rumped Petrel species passing the The Lizard, Cornwall. Elsewhere discoveries included a Pacific Golden Plover in Suffolk at Aldeburgh, a Red-rumped Swallow in Norfolk at Salthouse, two Melodious Warblers in Aberdeenshire, and in Gloucestershire the White-spotted Bluethroat reappeared at Slimbridge.

Rarities and scarcities from the east were both a Paddyfield Warbler and Arctic Warbler on the Shetland Isles, Greenish Warblers in Northumberland and North Yorkshire, Blyth's Reed Warblers on the Shetland Isles and in East Yorkshire, Little Bunting in Somerset, Red-breasted Flycatcher in Lincolnshire, Ortolan Bunting in Dorset, Rose-coloured Starling in Angus, Yellow-browed Warbler in Aberdeenshire, Ferruginous Duck in Northamptonshire, two each of Barred Warbler and Red-backed Shrike, three of Red-footed Falcon and Citrine Wagtail, four Icterine Warblers, five Common Rosefinches, and a total of 20 Wrynecks

From the Nearctic were the Bonaparte's Gull in Kent, Lesser Yellowlegs in County Louth, Baird's Sandpipers on both the Isles of Scilly and in County Wexford, three American Golden Plovers, and 17 Pectoral Sandpipers.

Significant late news concerned a Roller present in recent days at Bere Ferrers, Devon.
Chris Batty, RBA
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