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Friday 18th November 2022  
  New discoveries today included a brief Ross's Gull at Loch of Spiggie, Shetland, a Desert Wheatear at Goldcliff Pools, Gwent, a Hume's Warbler at Druridge Pools, Northumberland, a Dusky Warbler at The Naze, Essex, an Olive-backed Pipit on Lundy, Devon and a Baird's Sandpiper at Hollesley, Suffolk.

Lingering rarities included the Isabelline Wheatear in Gwynedd, Red-flanked Bluetail and two Dusky Warblers in Scilly, Dusky Warbler in Yorkshire, two Red-rumped Swallows in Kent, Pallid Harriers in Norfolk and Cornwall, Long-billed Dowitcher and two Ferruginous Ducks in Norfolk, Black Duck in County Mayo, Lesser Scaups in Western Isles and County Donegal, Cackling Goose in Western Isles and White-billed Diver in Fife.

Scarcity highlights included a Short-toed Lark, a Little Bunting, a Common Rosefinch, a Hoopoe, a Great Grey Shrike, two Richard's Pipits, two Lapland Buntings, 11 Shorelarks, 48 Waxwings, six Glossy Ibises, a Rough-legged Buzzard, a Surf Scoter, two American Wigeon, eight Ring-necked Ducks, a Black Brant, two Snow Geese, two Taiga Bean Geese, ten Tundra Bean Geese, a Red-necked Phalarope, 11 Grey Phalaropes, around 410 Little Auks, three Iceland Gulls, six Glaucous Gulls, five Sabine's Gulls, two Great Shearwaters, a Long-tailed Skua and 26 Pomarine Skuas.
Will Soar, RBA
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