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Wednesday 10th May 2023  
 

Discoveries today included a Baikal Teal in Aberdeenshire at Macduff, a Bee-eater in East Yorkshire at Spurn, and a Black-headed Wagtail reported on the Shetland Isles at Grutness, Mainland.

Elsewhere rarities comprised the Stejneger's Scoter and two White-winged Scoters still together in Fife, Slate-coloured Junco still in Aberdeenshire, Forster's Tern in Dorset, Laughing Gull on the Isles of Scilly, Pallid Harriers in Cornwall, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk, Great Reed Warbler in Somerset, Long-billed Dowitchers in both Hampshire and Norfolk, Bonaparte's Gull in Cornwall, Iberian Chiffchaff in East Sussex, Red-footed Falcon in Kent, Hooded Merganser in Cumbria, Ferruginous Duck in Norfolk, White-billed Diver on the Orkney Isles, and Black-winged Stilts in Highland, Lincolnshire (3), Somerset, County Wexford, and South Yorkshire.

Scarcities included Short-toed Lark (Isles of Scilly), Golden Oriole (Suffolk), Red-backed Shrike (Shetland), Wryneck (East Yorkshire), American Golden Plover (Anglesey), Ring-billed Gull (Perth and Kinross), American Wigeon and Surf Scoter (Fife), Ring-necked Duck (South Yorkshire), Dotterel (Shetland), two Montagu's Harriers, three of both Temminck's Stint and Grey-headed Wagtail, four of Purple Heron and Hoopoe, and five Night Herons.

Significant late news concerned a Pacific Swift on Monday at Ham Wall, Somerset, where it may also have been seen on Friday.
Chris Batty, RBA
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