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Friday 17th July 2026  
  New rarities today consisted of a White-rumped Sandpiper at Beacon Ponds north of Kilnsea in East Yorkshire and a Gull-billed Tern at Dungeness RSPB in Kent.

Rarities included a Hudsonian Godwit on the Suffolk/Essex border, a Caspian Tern in North Yorkshire, an American Black Tern in Northumberland, and a Bonaparte's Gull in Kent.
-  Ben Clark, RBA