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Saturday 26th August 2023  
 

Discoveries today included an Arctic Warbler on the Shetland Isles on Whalsay with now four Greenish Warblers around that archipelago, with a further Greenish Warbler still in East Yorkshire at Flamborough Head.

Rarities elsewhere comprised both Red-footed Booby and Scopoli's Shearwater off the Isles of Scilly, Stejneger's Scoter and King Eider still together in Lothian, Greater Sand Plover still in County Wexford, Forster's Tern in Dorset, Black-winged Pratincole in County Donegal, Black Storks in both Hampshire and Lincolnshire, Blue-winged Teal in East Yorkshire, Long-billed Dowitchers in Norfolk and the Orkney Isles, Lesser Yellowlegs in Pembrokeshire, White-rumped Sandpiper in Northumberland, four Black-winged Stilts together in South Yorkshire, and Bonaparte's Gulls in County Cork (2), County Down, and Kent.

Scarcities included Short-toed Lark (Pembrokeshire), Melodious Warbler (Dorset), White-winged Black Tern (Kent), Rose-coloured Starling, Marsh Warbler, Icterine Warbler and Common Rosefinch (Shetland), Purple Heron (Glamorgan), Night Heron (Devon), Spotted Crake (Lincolnshire), Red-necked Phalarope (Suffolk), Dotterel (Shropshire), two each of Woodchat Shrike, American Golden Plover, and Pectoral Sandpiper, five Barred Warblers, seven of Wryneck and Long-tailed Skua, eight Glossy Ibises, 12 of Red-backed Shrike and Sabine's Gull, 147 Great Shearwaters, and a total of 1,078 Cory's Shearwaters.
Chris Batty, RBA
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