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Sunday 19th July 2026  
  The new rarity today was a Lesser Scaup at Blithfield Reservoir in Staffordshire.

Rarities included a Long-tailed Shrike in Gloucestershire (also noted briefly over the Oxfordshire border), a Hudsonian Godwit at Cattawade on the Suffolk/Essex border, a White-rumped Sandpiper in East Yorkshire, and a Bonaparte's Gull in Kent.
-  Ben Clark, RBA