Tuesday 18th August 2026
	Discoveries today included, at Brandon Point, County Kerry, a South Polar Skua and a Scopoli's Shearwater logged amongst 2,100 Cory's Shearwaters. Continuing rarities confirmed as still present today comprised the Long-tailed Shrike along the Gloucestershire/ Oxfordshire border, the Black-winged Kite in Norfolk, Hudsonian Godwit and two Zitting Cisticolas in Suffolk, White-rumped Sandpipers in both County Wexford and East Yorkshire, and Ferruginous Ducks in Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire (2).
-  Chris Batty, RBA