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Monday 2nd September 2024  
  The highlight of the day was the reappearance of the dark morph Booted Eagle in Cornwall where it was seen briefly over Nanquidno. Elsewhere a Scopoli's Shearwater was at sea off the Isles of Scilly, a Thrush Nightingale was new on the Shetland Isles on Fair Isle, Semipalmated Sandpiper on the Western Isles on South Uist, Black Kite in County Cork on Cape Clear, Red-rumped Swallow in Norfolk at Waxham, Bonaparte's Gulls in Argyll on Mull, in Fife at Fife Ness, and in London at Rainham Marshes, and a day total of 10 Greenish Warblers with singles in Aberdeenshire, Borders, County Durham, and Lincolnshire, and two each in both Lothian, Shetland, and East Yorkshire.

Continuing rarities comprised the Hudsonian Godwit still in Flintshire, Stejneger's Scoter in Lothian, Canvasback in Essex, Semipalmated Sandpiper in Cornwall, Long-billed Dowitcher in County Down, Red-footed Falcon in County Donegal, Lesser Scaup in Staffordshire, and two White-rumped Sandpipers together in Norfolk.
Chris Batty, RBA
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