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Saturday 18th July 2026  
  New rarities today were a Lesser Yellowlegs at Benacre Broad in Suffolk, and a Ferruginous Duck at Stanford Reservoir in Northamptonshire.

Rarities included the Hudsonian Godwit at Cattawade on the Suffolk/Essex border, a White-rumped Sandpiper in East Yorkshire, a Caspian Tern in North Yorkshire, a Least Tern in County Louth, a Semipalmated Sandpiper in Orkney, a Lesser Scaup in Hertfordshire, a Pacific Golden Plover in East Yorkshire, and a Bonaparte's Gull in Kent.
-  Ben Clark, RBA