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Sunday 30th October 2022  
 

The highlight of the day was the discovery of another Alpine Accentor in East Anglia; on Blakeney Point, Norfolk. Discoveries elsewhere included a Little Swift in Somerset at Brean Down, a Red-flanked Bluetail on the Shetland Isles at Lerwick where it later died, a Radde's Warbler in County Waterford at Helvick Head, in Norfolk a Desert Wheatear at Cley and Pallid Harrier at Titchwell, whilst at least 19 Pallid Swifts were identified; in Cleveland, East Sussex, East Yorkshire (6), Lothian (4), North Yorshire (3), and Northumberland (4).

Lingering rarities confirmed as still present were both the Wilson's Snipe and Red-rumped Swallow on the Isles of Scilly, Isabelline Wheatear in County Cork, White-winged Scoter in Lothian, Black Scoter, Subalpine Warbler species, and Eastern Stonechat species in Northumberland, Collared Pratincole in Gloucestershire, Eastern Black Redstart on the Orkney Isles, another Pallid Harrier and Long-billed Dowitcher in Norfolk, Hornemann's Arctic Redpolls on both Orkney and Shetland, Blue-winged Teal in Lincolnshire, and Lesser Yellowlegs in Cleveland and Merseyside.

On Shetland two Eastern Bar-tailed Godwits - of the form baueri or menzbieri - were discovered on Fair Isle.
Chris Batty, RBA
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