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Sunday 5th July 2026  
  The highlight of the day was a Long-tailed Shrike at Crail in Fife.

New rarities consisted of a Laughing Gull at Broadford Bay in Highland, and a Kentish Plover at Dungeness in Kent.

Rarities included a Western Reef Heron in Pembrokeshire, a Caspian Tern in Kent, Bonaparte's Gulls in Kent and Shetland, a Lesser Scaup in Fife, an American Black Tern in Northumberland, and a Black-winged Kite in Norfolk.
-  Ben Clark, RBA